Show CONVICTS CONVICTS IN A FIERCE BATTLE BA I Two Bad Men One with wilh a Knife and Another with an Iron Bar Bal Fight Each Other in an Encounter that May be Fatal tc Both of and What They Are t There wn a da and aM fatal light Ibis morning nt tho state prison between Convicts R E W V ton and William Drown The 1110 facts ns nearly noory ns aK ho tills this noon aro uro OH follows The ho two men had hada hadIt a It disagreement n yesterday ye afternoon from bad IrR blood sprung and nn cul cuI culminated this morning nt Ht 7 when the men turned out with their buckets They Thoy were ere close together when tho quarrel was WM renewed and nn Hamilton truck struck Brown suddenly over tho hon head meral veral with an Iron bar about IS 18 Inches long Ion by h two Incho wide Ind one fourth of an Inch thick Browns agility In attempting to dodge e the blows alone his lire life Then Thun Drown either ran bock back Into hi cell and secured a knife he had concealed there or III hat had It it at the time concealed In hi hili clothes With this weapon he attacked Hamilton cutting him through the lIe lips knocking out sev several eral teeth anI badly cutting the tongue Hamilton II It ton returned with till the Jar bar beat beatIng Ing Brown Droun about the Drown continued to defend himself and drow the knife under the right I I of at his assailant to sorno I distance Into Inlo the lung Dy ITy that time both mon Were rore i oly In a I flUto of oC t I Tho guards were promptly on the Uw 1 bill the two 1 lilt in lit J work so 0 quickly the combat could coull I bo he In seconds Dr A r I Young the prison physician was Im Immediately II i mediately summoned and anI under tinder his dl the man were carried on blan blankets to the hospital where their wounds woun i f were wre attended to Their recovery f Is I doubtful as Brown ls IR so 80 terribly benten tho head that t filial concussion of or ortho tho brain IH 11 likely to ensue and tilt the slash through lung leave him In a n very ul condition on Acting Warden Is III ev everything P r In hll power to 10 get nt the root nf the trouble but the prisoners who i witnessed 1 the fight fire are reticent anil l r I rIN II IN I like teeth to worm anything 1 cut cUI of lit them Hamilton Is doing three years from March 1901 for trying his I bast to do up tho Snit Salt t with a n six II shooter In tn n running j the charge against t him being as assault t t sault with TUh Intent to commit murder er Brown la III 40 O yearn from Ogden i ier on er of ot killing a and r t bin alleged partner It I doing time In 11 Inthe i the Colorado state prison on at Canyon Canon I City |