| Show Ogden Slayer Slabs Stabs Guard GuardIn In Escape Try Cox Uses Crude Knife KnifeS S F Fashioned n d From Prison Spoon A Utah state prison guard was and other guards were reed to use tear g gas s a second TIe TIC Frida Friday morning when Austin x 1 black bearded and grudge grudge- slayer of five ve Ogden per per- ns on July uly 23 1943 figured In fourth futile escape attempt Now awaiting death by a Weber firing squad June 19 In Ine e prison Cox has appealed to toe e state board of pardons for a of sentence to life The board connes connes connes con- con nes June 17 Injured Friday was Lester H. H gle 42 2 S Sander ny who suffered a aerated er ted lip Up during a routine of Coxs Cox's ent cell ceU in death row Crude Knife Deputy Warden W. W P. P ported the wound was inflicted th Ui a a crude cr de knife which Cox had from a prison spoon Guard Gogle called for help as x IX swung the crude knife wildly ter cr daring Gogel to enter his cell ring the regular inspection lards ards Wilford Larson and Wilm ViI Wil- m m A. A t Larson with Gogle had dered Cox to step Into the cell- cell ck walkway while they in- in his cell if I wont won't come out protested IX x And Arid by damn nobody's ya c coming ming Ii h he o 5 QU E L. L It was then that Gogle entered d I R as the gu guard guan stepped within e j cell cell Cox slashed l out with the thelt lt e. e sp spoon knife on-kr on ife nipping the theard ther ard r rd l once before lefor th the other two lar Lards ards s could aid in partially sub sub- ing the murderer b by Tear Gas The rhe guards guard's called for aid nging Captain C of the Guards M. M Sm Smart rt who vho fired tear-gas tear to subdue Cox Deputy Deput Warden Varden s said id IX K X has often told guards Ill In Inife ife re you yO just as much trouble as I Iri ri r. r w And he's hes certainly keeping his rd added the deputy warden On May 7 T guards were forced use tear-gas tear to subdue Cox On Inspection tour that tha t day ards discovered that Cox had ng blankets blankets' around his cell andred andred and andred red the guards to enter The gas ir-gas as was used first in that in- in nce On two previous occasions ards had frustrated apparent ci ape ce pe attempts when they dis- dis vered crudely fashioned knives d I other escape instruments in 3 cell Cox was specifically charged th 1 and is awaiting the death laity nalty for the shotgun mur murder er of cond ond District Judge Lewis V. V 1 eman a as Ore week after the tM Incident oc- oc Warden Varden John E. E Harris of oft t ah tab h state prison confirmed Friy FriL Fri Fri- L LY y rumors that two inmates Continued on oil Page Eleven Column Fo Your Four r 7 r k x I 4 I A 11 t 14 ud Lester H. H Gogh Gog Accepted c challenge by Aus- Aus ft C Cox X and nd was cut on lip Y crude knife Cox had hod s i from prison spoon Ogden Slayer Stabs Guard in Escape Effort i Continued d from Pare Par One Onet placed in confinement May 24 for violation of rules had been fired upon by a guard before b they broke the prison rule Without commenting upon why the information had been withheld from the press pres's May 24 Warden Varden Harris said that the two inmates Hardy Bowers 27 serving a robbery sentence and Grover Thompson 28 serving an habitual criminal sentence had stepped near a a. wall of the prison while 1 watching a baseball game When they stepped over the dea deadline a a a line Une beyond which inmates Inmates in- in mates are arc not permitted to go go-a go a tower guard Carl C. C Youngberg warned them to return inside the theline theline line and fired a warning shot into the ground near them said Warden Warden Warden War War- den Harris The inmates then violated prison rules by using abusive lang language age toward the guard Their terms In confinement were made indeterminate The state board of f pardons calendar calendar calendar cal cal- for June 17 includes an appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal of Austin Cox condemned to todie todie todie die June 19 for first degree murder murder mur mur- der of Second District Judge Lewis V V. Trueman asking that his sentence sentence sen sen sentence tence be commuted to life lIfe- Attorney Attorney ney General Grover A. A Giles board secretary said Friday The board which will meet at 10 a a. a m. m June 17 at the state prison also will consider an appeal of Dr T T. William Stevenson Salt Lake physician for termination of his year one r sentence for tor involuntary involuntary involuntary tary manslaughter in connection with an illegal megal operation last lut De De- cember Among 27 other applicants for termination of sentence will be Peter Beauprey convicted of first degree murder of John A. A Smithson Smith- Smith son in a Salt Sal Lake hotel in 1938 |
