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Show PRISONERS FIGHT UNTUNE DIES BCISSORS AND RAZOR BLADES FIGURE IN BATTLE FOLLOW-QUARREL FOLLOW-QUARREL FOR MONEY Inmate of Utah State Prison Fight Duel That Ends in Death Of One And Severe Injury To The Other Salt Lake. Armed with a scissors blade and with a fragment of razor blade respectively, J. A. Sanchez and Ruben Flores, inmates of the Utah state prison, staged a duel to the death In cellhouse No. 2. Flores, stabbed through the heart after a desperate struggle, died instantly. in-stantly. Sanchez, cut about the face and neck, hardly able to talk, lies In the prison hospital. He will recover Burgeons say. The fight, according to the brief story Sanchez gasped out between gulps of blood to Warden -James De-vine, De-vine, culminated a quarrel of long standing over an alleged debt of BO cents which Sanchez claimed Flores owed him. Until the death struggle prison officials offi-cials were unaware of any bad blood between the two. Flores was committed to the state prison from Ogden in January, 1924, on a charge of burglary. Sanchez was sent up on a similar charge from Carbon county in February, Feb-ruary, 1924. They had .been tractable to discipline, disci-pline, had passed each other in the corridors and about the yard without giving any Intimation of the difference differ-ence between them. Flores had occupied a cell in cell-house cell-house No. 2 since his commitment. Sanchez was quartered in No. 1 cell-house. cell-house. The two men had had fre-juent fre-juent contact about the inclosure. From the preliminary investigation conducted by Warden Devine, it appears ap-pears that several months ago Sanchez San-chez loaned Flores a small sum, of which all but 50 cents had been repaid. re-paid. A dispute arose over the balance, bal-ance, but no inkling of the controversy contro-versy reached prison officials. Secretly Flores armed himself with a fragment of old razor blade, while Sanchez fashioned a weapon from one blade of a pair of scissors pilfered pil-fered from the overall factory of the prison, it is thought. Casually, and without arousing suspicion, sus-picion, Sanchez repaired to No. 2 cellhouse. Whihc one started the argument has not been ascertained, because of the difficulty of interrogating Sanchez San-chez until his wounds shall mend, Warden Devine said, but the assumption assump-tion of prison officials is that, if Sanchez' San-chez' story of the debt be true, Sanchez San-chez encountered Flores in the cell-house cell-house corridor, and made demand for the amount due him. t Flores' answer was evidently couched couch-ed in fighting words. It is thought that neither man knew of the other being armed, each feeling himself well equipped with a weapon familiar to his use. Immediately they were at It. Circling Circl-ing about in the narrow confines of the corridor, slashing, stabbing with parry and thrust, the fight was on. Flores, with his razor blade, cut furiously at Sanchez's jugular vein, inflicting severe neck and face wounds. Sanchez, with his scissors blade as an improvised stilletto, soon gave over the attempts to cut his antagonist, an-tagonist, and, making a desperate forward for-ward lunge, drove the blade into Flores' heart. The duel was terminated,' Flores was dead and Sanchez lay near his victim bleeding profusely before the alarm could be given and guards reach the scene. Sanchez was taken to the prison hospital, where his wounds were dressed. |