Show u SUNDAY MORNING APBTri I THE OGDEN STANDARD onwc I Farmer-Jur- y Recital of Amazing Psychology IVhich Sent the Men to the Chair for the Death of Their Convict Leader I’ll Inquire around f down lo Hell and find out who killed Henry Sulli nXn—lui ' - Udwin yHO did kill Henry Sullivan? A jury of men fitting in Y T JSh SEVEN AUBURN GUARDS HELD AS HOSTAGES IN THE'BOX Off ICE imETHEGONYKJS ilWIfHHiMfffltUlifWflllllfm TRIED TO BARGAIN fOR fREE DOM i Auburn Cayuga County New York listened to testimony for weeks fi about the famous break for liberty in an effort to answer this question- - It is still unanswered No one of the twelve jurors has any opinion on the subject This is not surprising No evidence was offered by the State's attorney to show who fired the bullet which drilled the skull of Henry Sullivan a convict and sent him to his death A letter to the editor of this section from a guard or convict called the verdict a fact-found- WARDEN JENNINGS ed " in a Yet Claude Udwin William' Force and “Two-Gun- ” Jesse Thomas sit in the death house at Sing Sing waiting for the executioner The farmer jury called them guilty and unless the verdict is set aside by the Court of Appeals or executive clemency is Invoked they must die Henry Sullivan was killed in a riot at Auburn Prison on December 11 1929 He was shot thrice twice through the head with a bullet which drilled his skull from back to front The coroner who held office at the time of the riot examined the body of Sullivan and reported as follows: 7 find that Ilenry Sullivan met hit death os the result of gunshot wounds received on the 11th day of December 1929 “ find further that they were Inflicted by an officer of the law at a time when the deceased teas engaged in an attempt by force and violence to effect an escape from the State prison at Auburn where he was being detained as a prisoner according to law f find further that this homicide was justiL Of DOOR? Prison Break r Vi Altar Rescue by Trooper of Rioting Felons Note the Broken Manacfes Dangling From His Wrists and His Face Smeared 1 With Blood CONVICTS DASHED net M ? NATIONAL GUARDSMEN AND STATE TROOPERS FIRING INTO ROOM THROUGH OPEN DOOR WHERE AND HOWSUtUVSN BACK OF HEAD AND CHEST of the guilt of the defendants beyonq a reasonable doubt — must be satisfied of their guilt upon the evidence and upon the evdexice alone Auburn Is n prison city Cayuga County is a prison county Attempted breaks have been frequent Last July durfULSHOT THROUGH ing afjbad break corivicts set HE DIED INSTANTLY fire tq prison buildings and four dangerous inmate escaped i One Arthur Barry' Notorious burglar is still at large Ain undercurrent of Hostility toward prison officials and Society at large is always After present behind the walls the conviction of Udwin Force and Thomas Anthony Mortellito a convict stabbed Principal Keeper Edward I Beckwith to death in the prison mess-ha- ll ‘ ‘This killing occurred during the trial of Max Becker Brooklyri gunman since acquitted of killing Principal Keeper George Durnford in December Beckwith Was the third “PKt to die at the hands of ‘Inmates within two years Hints" have been dropped about a prisoners who to place guards O an d- a proscription list' for the purpose op doing away with them when ' opportunity offers This state of affairs is known only too well to the inhabitants of Cayuga County Every person who lives within the county limits Jives ip fear of an outbreak- from fhe "big house” There is in fact doubt that unspeakable crimes might follow in the wake of 'an outpouring upon the countryside of the ? ng V WM8f X FromK Clutches “Signed “Paul Parker If Coroner Dr Parker’s term as coroner exHe was pired on January 1 1930 succeeded by Dr W Le Roy Corey who immediately caused Sullivan’s body to be dug from its grave in Buffalo for another autopsy Then Dr Corey filed a report that ( "¥r ''CvzTTtvf Blood-Staine- ATTACK WHEN prom p-o- f Q - d t Shows Guard George E Atkina PREPARED TO able £s V HtnS AND POLICE AT SIDE ? V4 AUBURN GUARDS - “crime” 5 HELD PRISONER BY THE CONVICTS ni ' 1600 inmates jof Auburn Prison Hardly any man if the county would hesitate to condemn to death' in advance any prisoner fwho would be likely to ? r' I ' h1" 832 s ft ’ Y J v " j4f -- && A Vv- TROOPERS FIRING fK - - I ' INTO ROOM WHERE THREE AUTOMOBILES SULLIVAN AND WITH ENGINES & V - PRJSON GATE II $ nerism is to walk along a pa aginary roses scattered by his shackled hands' must die That is jvhy William Force! ther pallid-face- d habitual criminal’ and lifer? must bum at5 the Jesse That is why "Two-Gun- ” JOHNSON DIED RUNNING OUTSIDE ' engineer a general outbreak The fact though is that breaking prison is nota capital offe:ise Attempting to bfealc prison is not a capi-- tal offense These crimes have their punishments fut death is not exacted -- A' r POUCH AND STATE & Vx US'- A AUBURN eleo-trode- 2 sj TO THE DEATH HOUSE — SMILING! ' Poth Straws With Along s Ro the Three by Claud Udwin (right) lmfinry ' V 5A V Ankara Convicts Left the Scene ef Their 1 Conviction Their Faces Wreathed in V Smiles At Left Is William Force and Jcui Thomas Is Shown Bringing Up the Rear L Sullivan had been killed by a single f steel-cla- d bullet which pierced his skull He reported that none of the State It troopers or guards used ammunition and that the killing must t necessarily have been done by somer V one else presumably a convict On the basis of this finding the Grand Jury indicted six convicts Claude Udwin Buffalo bank robber William Force lifer Jesse Thomas also n a lifer and three others Frank Lea-ga- n Graphic Reproduction by Artist Louis Biedelmann'of the Tragie 20 Leo Lewis and Albert CasDecember Riot in Auburn Prison The sidy Scene Is Portrayed From the Time of The evidence showed that on the the of December 11 Negotiations for Freedom to the a convict morning Instant ef the Shooting of Sullivan declared by witnesses to have been the Desperado Max Becker Brooklyn gunman shot down Principal Keeper George Dura-for- d The convicts had told Father Cleary r and disarmed him kI°tWWeA?“nd It showed i Hi Effort t the prison chaplain that they warfed further that Warden Jennings was cap2SSL Th”wi° TooL opened and three cars tured by three of the convicts and the gates in of the front main gate with placed disarmed and that in short order seven The ju one but dirk: running of the guards were taken into custody engines lifer must go accon tructed of committed an Copy SQSSTgSI The instructed to Father guards at Sing the by the felons and relieved of their to inform the prisoners that Cleary he that if sing could Anonymous but hate been killed by a guard: their Why j Claude' Udwin punctuated the Then the guards were wishes would be the fatal snot was fired by by a State trooper (this is contradicted weapons Lotte Significant out carried He did of witnesses the verdict of shackled and held at pistol point — held so testimony convicts one the of rioting were Carrying a Hint of by the report of the second coroner) fully believing that the bargain and in submission by their own guns in the ‘sentence of death with tpe jury who at rioters the all a Suppressed Evidence Known would be kept in good faith with no of Auburn policeman A cty ffby the hands of the inmates graceful of throwing flowers gestures that time engaged of their killing by any of these men would have Among Those Close to the bloodshed known to none At this juncture the desperate conbut himself He sat to an t escape been justifiable and to be expected in attempt Three automobiles nwB Kiatcu ui- Grapevine Telegraph ' own free will in of murder the victs started dickering for their retrial with shackled tSfnsfe in long the first the side circumstances the gates and their motors left of Rnr would be guilty a lease Under threat ox murdering the smile Rept on Ms face and No des of motive his desperado -for v death The at the hands running gates were opened and warden and the seven guards they beMs lap and e?he jury found three of the de- of a fellow convict was shown toward A row or to the sieged other guards with demands for Isanc!8 Lewis front and and side claimed Cassidy fendants Leagan com ict3 began aS At the trial the defense attorney of- - not a the a free exit Holding a guard as a ' eSI? on roses on of the Men strewing ground versed in the law have deguilty apparently f fioor about Mm shield they approached the guard-roofa einf6lthS SJ When the or were not their clared marched rioting that they since the conviction of Udwin of the I juyy was rendered verdict and talked terms Udwin Force and Thomas that the Cayuga at Police from the town of Auburn smiled defendants f4hw Vs w -County Jury apparently understood Accorumg wwn into tjieir midst State troopers civilians and National Then all Le and ' all tossed Ms convict six to of de wanted ®®re grounds Justice was irrelevancy to jurors Cunningham confusion But out of ne admitted the say in Ms in- Japnary roses ajiout their feet Guardsmen all of whom had responded report of the second fendants while one held out for hours structions v groaning choking coroneri however for the consideration ' for an acquittal for alL As a compro to the first distress message sent out rirwL51”"’ two men rerhaps the j gesture was one of Yeu must be satisfied beyond a emerged headed for the of the jury i from the prison were assembled about reluctant eleven mise jurors agreed doubt that Sullivan was Was direstd ln the uniform the prison gate and environs during of °r‘5JLe Patrolman William Carr of tho to an acquittal for three accepted from the killed Having determined that if pnson guard The other wore the Auburn the desperate bargaining for freedom i as hisj inevitable fate at the had been present h What undisclosed factor entered into have 7tVl police Jwho habiliment doubt as who to f of an V hen the incarcerated riot testified the vjt i&a that i the deliberations of the jurors mnd" fatal STotV guards felt that sufficiant pay T rn?er jury Whatever v at into to convict ifk' Vuthoare entitUd he had Vi fired two shots the gesture was in strength was assembled to prevent the the com- - caused them to condemn three men to any or all of convicts rioting n®n strange fcontraft to the dor where Sullivan and the other mut- - death for a killing wMch has not been escape of any of the rioters they debitterness in of course Of Judge Cunningham gave termined upon a ruse said that proved even to be a specific crime? He as a ?he weinoS $nly ineeI? 9ust of roses no foi a such instructions path He lynched told had done likewise officers ftwo If Henry Sullivan was killed by any efMrast to the corridor the jurors that they mustactually be satisfied X :-rV steel-coat- m by society for their commission Legislatures hafe not seen fit to fix the extremal penalty- - as punishment for breaking prison walls But in Cayuga County New York twelve jurors acted as their feel’ ' I Q “ ed Cross-Sectio- S“ni“ Eipf '1 I i if 1 J? m 1 S£¥lUl &4J 00v ’ be-nni-ng irj 2°£S12hd5t& Tmr i uTCieart - ftwmm m XstonaUsMl rtur Imks Imu L Cml Britain MlsMe Swam r leading to the electnc chair - - - ’ m |