Show EXAMPLES Of I SUiClUf MANIA Presented By Criminals Confined Con-fined In Prisons HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN QUINCY CAL JAIL Another Prisoner In Long Island Hangs Himself For a Joke Lowell Maxwell Was the First Victim Vic-tim and he Disemboweled Himself Him-self With a Razor His Criminal Career Covers Nevada and California Calif-ornia Attempt of Italian Prisoner to Hang Himself Reasons Assigned As-signed For Selfimmolation Rono Nev Dec 27A special to the Gazette says In the county jail at Quinn Cala on Sunday morning at 9 oclock one of the most horrible tragedies trage-dies known for years occurred Lowell Maxwell had been convicted of burg laiy in the first degree on two charges one for entering the express office last f October and taking an express box out and robbing it of 3800 The other for entering the Welch hotel in Humbug p valley last September and taking a suit of cinthes For the offences Judge McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin was to pass sentence today the 27th Yesterday morning Sheriff Bradford gave Maxwell breakfast as usual When this was finished the prisoner asked permission to shave himself This he had been accustomed to do since incarceration Not suspecting any rash act Sheriff Bradford gave him a mug and razor Maxwell said he also wanted to take a bath and requested the sheriff to bring him more water When the officer stepped out after water the prisoner caed out to C J Lee and F G Halt who were in the sheriffs office in front of the jail proper and said Goodbye Good-bye boys good bye DISEMBOWELED HIMSELF I When Lee stepped to the door there stood Maxwell in his cell with a frightful fright-ful cut across his abdomen below the navel and his intestines protruding a spectacle most tragic and horrifying to behold After the rash deed the prisoner pris-oner stated that he wanted to get rid of this hell oh earth and he heaped curses on those who brought about his conviction con-viction Dr Sonagle was called but after af-ter a hasty examination he pronounced the case hopeless In the afternoon Dr McChesney county physician sewed up the intestines he also pronounced the case hopeless Maxwell died at 1115 p m Not only had the razor cut a sixinch gash in the abdomen but the Intestines had been cut in four places at one point nearly in two Maxwell said he would have cut his throat instead in-stead if he had not wished to see his mother before dying Besides his parents he has numerous brothers sisters and other relatives here who are sorely distressed by his crimes and this deed REVEALED THE TREASURE On Friday through the efforts of Sheriff Bradford and the advice of Hon W W Kellogg his chief counsel Maxwell consented to reveal the hiding place of the treasure taken from the express box by him on condition that he should receive 400 of the 23 ner cent L reward offered by Wells Fargo Co r That evening handcuffed and shackel ed Maxwell accompanied the sheriff Captain Stone and Mr Kellogg to the hiding place and that evening and next morning all of the treasure was recovered recov-ered HIS CRIMINAL CAREER Maxwells criminal career began in 1SS4 when he killed a man named Rabe in a saloon row in Greenville For this he was not entirely to blame but he was sent to prison for ten years After serving six he was pardoned and conducted con-ducted himself well for a few years but again entered upon a criminal career ca-reer The fear of going back to Folsom Fol-som prison was the cause of his rash deed The robbery the trial and conviction con-viction of Maxwell upon circumstantial evidence his subsequent confession and restoration of the treasure followed fol-lowed by his tragic deed this morning morn-ing have kept the community in a l feverish state of excitement |