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Show t'M::;Lco:,7iCTSufV8fQiowpRiso:;Qt - ' . IS TilE TliLD LIFE HE HAS TAKEN; WAfffED SCALP FOLaHOM, Cl.. Srpt. SO. J.b Oppn-. Oppn-. t.mr, fftftn lirr frf th CslifornlK inl trntlttrtra, tBhlrJ to dth til nHnt nemy, Franritaco Quia, in th n.rrtlor of 'he call for ih condrmtwd In Vrtwom prinn m I: orlotli 'rlrn1iiy fl-nioon. Both mii wit miirdpt-Mi nd unlr . ntnt pf rlSth. Qilllitd fpountlt had Vaaid h VAuld dlf huppv If Uvrnhlnr rrcedd-d Mm to ih callotr. nmir had aa often d-rlar4 hla rrarltnoa for oth If h oo'Hd kill Juki on mora man. Aardntant Turnkey Frank Kaudlllo. minpantfd bT a "Intatv.' anrorrllnaT lo tha rrlann ruitom, oond ih roll doora of th- four rfWi tn tlv frondmnd corridor cor-ridor thla aftrmonn for vnlllattni,. Aa hip door aa ooned. Q'H tada aoran to the rn!r of lha corridor and ahoutrd . rhallonira to Onrrnhlmr: -f'Come out and tmhU Jail.' K&kM Tttal Thnwt, Oppmhlmr mlld to th dflanre of 1h Indian bv a suddn rush from hla ell. Wore Qutiada iould ralao a hand In dfwev th tvlnt of a aharrx-nod htt of iron, all ln-ha In iynTth. that Ot-pfiheimM' Ot-pfiheimM' had ronaHri. had Dlerced hla brtst tuat rvlow th hari. Qullada In Ma rMb Tnmtna to Opoen-hlmr. Opoen-hlmr. tha tumkv aaid: "Olv roi that. Jakt-." !! rlrht. air." aald Oofnhlmr. ani a)mhr aurrendcrod lhs deadly weapon. hih In aon unknown manner h had manadTcd to faahloo from a ahort Iron bar. "I uat wantM to add another aalp M my bAlt," la hla only axplanatlon for tha dd WVn Oronh'lmar had lxn Iwked ut. CatudlrUi turned to Qullada. "Are vnu hurtT" h aed. , "A Mttla bit." waa Qultada'a ro'r. KutudllrO thrn ant for tha nr"fi thvi.in. IVforn tha doctor arrlwd Qullada waa dtad. tnnlwlmkr and Qui 1 Ad a hav bn llvtn for avral vara In th ahadow of tl caNowa whit tha r-onatltuttonalltv of a t'alirornla tat.it undr which thy wr pvnfrnrvl haa nen T-rndlrtr In the auproma ourt of tha Colted States. Quljada Pitrt IndUn. Qnllada. who had a strain of Yaout Indian blood, waa first antenrd to llfr In Poison, for murder In ls Ana-Ha. Ho naurd In th attmt"d hrak at Foiaom TWmhr 2. JM4. Iv-ln arlounly wnumli1 bv Caotaln Mumhv. One but-lt but-lt entrad hi arm, amnutatlon bln nVasaarv. fi this irak t)ir convlri killed by Ilia miardit. Ha waa arn-tanrod arn-tanrod to hana br Judre Hart on I cemher 2B. 1JM)5. under the law making an attaik n a orison guard a capital offense. The executions of both Qullada Qul-lada and Oonenhelmer wre poetponed until the decision of the 1'nlted Hiatus annrewre rmirf mi th tyue atton of the tt Ild'tv of the law. Oppenhelmer, passive and unemotional, appeared Tant night at the coroner s Inquest In-quest to explain that he and Quljada arranged ar-ranged this morning to fight to the death In tite afternoon. His piece of Iron, he aald. he picked up In the yard four months ago and he uaed It today because he waa "determined to take no chancea", flv a coincidence. Oppenhelmer la made the euhlect of an article In a aeries written by an es-mnvlct and now appearing In a Han Franclaco paper. According Ac-cording tn thla article, be had "kindly Inst t nets." Oppenhelmer started life as a Han Francisco Fran-cisco meaeenger boy. Hla first flcht was over a favor shown to another messenger hoy bv a girl who hsd charge of the tnee-aengera. tnee-aengera. Foe thla he was locked up. and whan after being released, he sought the Kir I, she ridiculed him. Home time after a, with an accomplice, rohhed a drug store tn Oakland and Oppenhelmer waa sentenced te Foiaom for fifty years. Waa .tfa&d la Friaoa. In prison ho made enemies right and left and became the euhjent of a death plot. He heard about It and killed hla opponent, a convict named Smith, before the latter could act. For this ha wss sentenced to life Imprisonment at Ban Quentln prison, being transferred there from Foleom. The guard at San Quentln Quen-tln watched him too clneely to please Oppenhelmer and after due warning he aecured a knife and nearly murdered him. He was then aentenced to eolltary Imprisonment Im-prisonment for Hfe, and waa confmed above the Jute storehouse, which he tried to fire by dropping lighted shaving through a crack. His cell was changed. I but ha cut through hla new bars, almost under the eyes of a guard, wrenched a bread knife from a convict In the prison kitchen, nearly eeverlng the latter'a arm and turned to fight, but waa at ruck down by a prisoner and disarmed. i He then was prosecuted tinder a law made following his own attempted murder mur-der of a guard and providing the death penalty for assault In prison. He waa convicted and taken bak to Folsom again and waa eon fined .there pending a decision de-cision of the I'ntted fttatea supreme court on the constitutionality of hla sentence. The ex -convict In writing of htm aald: "While hla life has been a criminal one, I behave ha would make good If given the chance. I only aaw him once.. He was fearfully emarMaled. Hla skin wss the color of dry mud. He looked tba In-oamatton In-oamatton of despair.' |