Show i CONVICTS HALT WORK ON GAS DEATH CELL OELL CARSON CITY Nev Jan 30 Prisoners hero detailed to complete the death house in inI I which Thomas Russell Mexican i and Gee Jon Chinese both conI condemned con con- I murderers will die on onI I February 8 refused to go on i with their work yesterday takIng tak tak- j ing the stand that they didn't care to have bave anything to do with the apparatus which will deal death to their fellow prisoners This action caused a suspension suspension sion sion of the work on the death house and prisoners refusing to I work were placed in the dungeon dungeon dungeon dun dun- geon on proverbial diet of bread and water The death cell will be completed in time says Warden Warden War War- I I den Dickerson who states gas gasis gas is is on the way It was purchased from a Los Angeles firm but railroads refused to handel it The containers will be trucked privately to the state line where a state highway truck will pick it un Feature and syndicate writers are arriving in the city daily preparing to pound out reams of copy on the first execution exe exe- I cution by gas in the history of I the civilized world I |