| Show PENITENTIARY PLOT California Convicts Planed a Wholesale Delivery San Quentin Cal Mach 4A conspiracy con-spiracy among the convIcts In the state prIson her to murder theIr guards and effect i wholesale delivery of prIsoner prIson-er has been revealed to Warden Hale through the faintheartedness of one of the conspirators As a result eight men denounce as ringleaders In the movement are In the dungeons one gad charge by the former wIth com plicity In the murderous plot or the inmates in-mates has been discharged and the guards have been doubled A hatchet several knives made from flies and some rudely fashioned cell door keys have been found and a search is being made throughout the prIson for the revolvers which It Is said were smuggled In through the complicIty of tht discharged dis-charged guard The convicts now In solitary confinement a all desperate crIminals several of them being in for life The Informer Is Sir Henry Westwood Cooper convIcted In San Francisco of forging drafts on the An gloCalforia and San Francisco and London banks He claimed to be a baronet and for a short time lived In style Precautions have been taken to prevent him from being killed by his fellow convIcts felow |
