Show SEVEN SHOT TO DEATH attempt of convicts to escape from prison Re results stilts in death mcalester okla seven men were shot to death and three persons persona were injured monday when three convicts attempted to escape from the state penitentiary and were slain by the guards one of the men murdered by the convicts in their mad dash for liberty was john B thomas of muskogee Musko gec formerly united sta states t ea district judge and once congressman from illinois despite the commotion caused by the three men lit in trying to shoot down everyone who came in their wa way no general attempt was made by other convicts to join in tho the delivery tha three men were encouraged i by their less desperate fellows who cheered the onslaught of the armed prisoners the desperadoes had taken the keys from the turnkey john martin fathom they had bad wounded and had sheltered themselves through the prison yard by holding mary alary foster a telephone operator in front fronton of them until the only shot fired by guards in ili the yard hirthe hit the girl in the leg outside the gate the men seized the horse and aad buggy of warden dick and dashed away only to be shot to death by pursuing guards |