Show Felons Fel ns Flogged in Prison Yard as Lesson As Heroic Guard Balks Escape Attempt CANON CANON CITY Colo Cob March 3 UP A P-A A guard who risked his life to corner two men escaping from Colorado state penitentiary here was the hero of tho the prison today With only a knife as protection Kiel Kid C ONeil O'Neil Nell 55 himself a n former Inmate in inmate inmate In- In mate jumped on the truck commandeered commandeered comman comman- yesterday by Donald Sheets I Iw w 23 and Edward Cronin CronIn 24 and forced them to stop A moment later Deputy Warden Vincent Donahue Donahue Don Don- ahue arrived and helped ONeil O'Neil overpower the pair Sheets and Cronin were flogged Inthe Inthe in inthe the prison yard as an object lesson lesson losson les los son while the tho rest of the tho inmates watched Tho The spectacular attempt to gain freedom started suddenly when the two men both serving 10 to year 20 terms stabbed and beat Robert Gwinn 29 20 trusty driver of at a aprison aprison aprison prison truck which they were loadIng loading load load- ing lug and then drove madly through the cast gate gato amidst a n hail of bul bul- lets The gate was demolished by bythe bythe bytho the tho truck ruck and was being repaired today t |