Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-06 | Page 5 | Drink Crazed Prisoner Amuck

PRISONER Kills Jail Warden W i and Tr Trusty sty With Poker V MOUNT T HOLLY N. N J j i Nc Nov 6 D p Dep Deputy uty Warden W Harry Harrs King of or the Burlington Bur Bur- Bur Bur- lington county Jail and Charles Vernon Bartlett a. a a trusty were beaten to death eath with a stove poker in lh the thc Jail yesterday yesterday yes yes- es I erday by harry Harrr Harry Asay a prisoner who was said i to 10 be suffering from delirium I King was killed when when he went to Asay's Aay's cell to give him medicine Rushing Rush Rush- Inc ing from tho cell Asay encountered Bartlett in the Jail kitchen beating him him so se erel severely that died last night Another I er trusty also was attacked but ho lie escaped before the crazed m man n could reach him with Ith the poker Asay then I fled to the Jail yard ard and tried to scale scalea U IL twenty foot wall Failing oal he armed himself with an ax and an iron Iton pipe threatening Joseph Jones colored pris oner oner who had grappled with him in Jail jaU He lie was subdued a few minutes' minutes later and amid locked up V V Asa Asay a a- scrap Iron dealer of Burlington Burling ling ton was arrested Wednesday night for drunkenness and and sentenced to a month In Jail He developed delirium tremens and was placed under tile care of or the prison physician n. n King KinA was was' was 60 years ars old