Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-10 | Page 1 | Two Officials Are Injured in Bloody Clash

TWO OFFICIALS ARE INJURED IN BLOODY CLASH Guards Halt Truck Mow Down Fleeing Fleeing Flee Flee- ing Prisoners NASHVILLE Term Penn Nov 10 AP One AP-One One of six convicts who two officials and es escaped escaped escaped es- es from the Tennessee penitentiary penitentiary penitentiary peni peni- today died of gun wounds about three hours after he and his companion companions were re re- re captured S Millard Edmonds of Chattanooga died in the prison hospital where he and the five other prisoners were carried carded Deputy Warden C. C C. C Woods seized in his office inside the prison walls was wounded seriously either by the escaping inmates after they had fled penitentiary grounds in a a. truck or in a gun battle with cers Little hope was held for lor his recovery recover The Toe other officer also was wounded M M. A. A Warren Warrent assistant chief chic of the e j st it tate te highway patrol said ab about t 20 officers discovered the prison truck about a mile mile- from the peni and opened fire when the convicts kept going We shot it out with them he said and they stopped only when we shot them all down I think their guns were emptied by that time Captain H. H Sampson was waa the theother theother theother other official wounded when the prisoners holding them were shot He was He-was was taken to the prison hospital where the seriousness of his condition condition condition condi condi- tion was not immediately deter deter- mined The stab wounds of Guard Strickland Strickland Strickland Strick Strick- land were reported as serious i