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Show DIES WITH SECRET Convict Refused on Deathbed to Tell of Plot. JEFFERSON CITY Mo . Nov. 25 -Charlcs Blake, tho convict who was shot during the mutiny at the State penitentiary peniten-tiary yesterday, died during the night Writhing on his deathbed, Blake would only nionn, "You don t know us; I'll never tell," and that Is all the authorities 1 i" learned so far In their efforts to fix the responsibility for tho outbreak. Gov Folk eat by the side of the dying convict and endeavored to persuade him to make a confession. He was followed by officials of the penitentiary, and for several hour they pleaded, threatened or offered Immunity for a confession of the details of the desperate plot to escape, but Blake flatly refused to divulge any information, and finally death sealed his lips. His death made tho third resulting from tho mutiny. The wounded men, Deputy Warden See, Guard J K. Young, Convicts Harry Vaughan and Charles Hayinond all will recover Connivance, assisted by some attache of the prison, is strongly suspected, and tho investigation will be of tho most rigid character. This much has been discovered, discov-ered, that four i6-caliber revolvers. 100 cartridges and two half-pint bottlna of nitroglycerin were secured by the leaders lead-ers of the mutiny yesterday. ( |