| Show TRAPPED CO CONVICTS RESIST WARDENS OS THREE ALLEGED MURD MURDERERS HOLD GUARDS MILITIA AND SHARPSHOOTERS AT BAY Tear Gas Used In Effort to Dislodge Men Machine Guns and Guardsman C Called lle-d lle Upon to Aid Prison Officers Officer Eddyville EddY Ky A Ky-A A barrage directed against the state penitentiary dining hall hail here where three convicts have barricaded themselves since attempt Ing to escape Wednesday was laid down by twenty five national guards guaras men men and thirty five prison guards Thursday A machine gun on the third floor of the building andone andone and andone one on the tike chapel a short distance from the fugitives fugitives' fort swept the Improvised fortress until a of 1600 rounds was exhausted The three convicts were reported to have fired tired twelve shot in lu return Guardsmen with rifles and guards with shot guns were also stationed at vantage altage points At a signal from Captain Allen commander of the tl e troops troop the barrage began Under Under Un der its cover er three throe soldiers advanced ad behind hastily iron ironshields ironshields shields and ud attempted to fill the I place with gas Some of ot It was re reo leased on the lower floor but It back apP apparently due to a gust o oT of wind and almost overcame o the lead leal was I forced to flee antI and aban don the attempt The rifle and shotgun fire continued steadily for twenty minutes Three convict t murderers who since Wednesday have ha held prison ties at bay killing three guards guard as they fired from the mess mus hall of ot the Western Kentucky state tary were found dead Saturday when toe trie beseler entered the torn bullet stronghold after flooding the building with ammonia flumes After the tile deadly gases Jases had been turned turnell Into the tho barricaded cover coer of ot the des erat ernt trio and all an signs of ot life were lack In lag Ing a st storming party of seven seen men entered the building All An was quiet on the first floor floar and t ey moved moed cautiously sly on to the second There they found the bodies of ot the men men Monte Monto Walters fully dressed apparently had been killed by bullets fired tired during the sedge selee Lawrence Griffith and Harry Ferland his companions stripped to the waist were from dead dead from froh bullet hullet wounds through the h heart rt Griffith and Ferland ll tE was believed died by their own pistols pistol to escape the fumes fumeo |
