Show A convict in the auburn new kew york pen pelt murders fellow prisoners nr naw nsw w yorm YORK april 17 1 john johnson known as the blue nig 0 or from clyde ran amuck in the broom shop ortho of the auburn prison this morning armed with a sharp knife used in cutting broom corn carn lie he first attacked charles peck a follow con convict vet leaving hini him 1 dead in hi 1 next ho fatally 11 stabbed daniel 1 1 britten L a coa convict vict an and 1 sov severely orely wounded several others the blado blade entered and lie ho now lies in ill a precarious condition conditi 0 1 in tho the hospital and it is thought lic he will die Jo johnson bilson stabbed ld ti ht and loft left ahik hile at liberty the blado of the knife was broken oil off during tho the melee and cannot lafound bo ba found lie ile directed directed a vicious blo blow v at keeper L i mitchell Mit choll arter after the bf blade ade was waa broken brohen but did not penetrate his clothing the keeper drow drew his revolver but as he wis about to pull the trigger somebody hit his arm and the ball went wide of the m mark ark it frightened johnson into bito surrendering ho however vever and ile ho wag taken to the ithe prison jail bev pecks h s loath death wa was caused by a wound in tho breast which penetrated tho heart z an Ati autopsy topsy showed ca a I 1 gash in his hoart heart in which a fil flagor eger could bo be inse arted tho cause of the flae trouble is said to have been an old grudge held b by y johnson against C a number of convicts in the shop pie FIC male made a throat threat that as soon as ag captain baker had a day off he would do up the shop baker was not on duty today to day and johnsen started in early to carry his throat threat in to execution salt lake herald |