Show mRDER IN ± A PRSON I Convict at San Quentin Fatally Stabs a Guard 4 San Francisco May 16 Jacob Op enhlmer a prisoner serving a life term in the San Quentin penitentiary for the murder of a fellow convict named Ross at the Folsom state prison last night attacked a guard I guard named James McDonald stabbing die stab-bing him five times The guard will I i Yesterday at the Folsom prison John i Showers a threeyear man and one of the best behaved men in the prison was stabbed to death by George Putnam a lifelong friend of the Majors boys Revenge Re-venge was the cause of the Folson i murder Showers having turned states i i evidence in the Lloyd Majors murder I I case nearly twenty years ago Abe Malors is now under a sentence of death In Utah for the murder of Police Po-lice Captain Brown Archie Majors was killed by Brown in an attempt to capture the young desperadoes Lloyd Majors and a man named Jewell murdered mur-dered two men In this state twenty years ago and were hanged on the evidence of Showers ODDenhelmer I was a friend of the Majors boys but whether the crime of the Majors had anything to do with the murder of McDonald is not known I i I Oppenheimer would have suffered the death penalty for the murder of Ross lJ hih but the evidence in I the case was conflicting con-flicting the other prisoners testifying that Ross attacked Oppenheimer Oppenheimer was reprimanded by Guard McDonald for an infraction of prison rules and attacked the guard I stabbing him three times over the heart and twice In other places The guard had no means of defending himself him-self against the onslaught at Oppen heimer who was subdued by guards and prisoners who went to the rescue 01 McDonald The knife with which Op penheimer did the stabbing has not been found I I Guard McDonald has identified Op penhelmer as his assailant and has I I made an antemortem statement accusing accus-ing him of the assault I I McDonald Is growing very weak and I will not live through the night I |