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Show fled. Dashing madly up the stairs ho rushed back . to., his cell.' -'-Hamilton followed in close, pursuit, beating the man over the head with the -iron' bar as he ran. Brown .reached . the-cell, but tried vainly to escape his -assailant. He was. beaten into insensibility before the guard and.'jpther prisoners could separate the combatants. Both ; men are so; seriously, injured that there is no hope for recovery. - Brown was serving af6rty-year sentence for murdering mur-dering 'a Chinaman in Ogden, while j Hamilton had been sent'up from Salt j Lake county for three years for as- j sault with intent to commit murder. 1 . BATTLE OF CONVICTS DESPERATE STRUGGLE OCCURS BEHIND PRISON WALLS. Two Desperate Criminals Engage in a Duel to the Death, One Being Armed With a 'Knife and the - 'Other With an Iron Bar. William Brown and Ed. W. Hamilton, Hamil-ton, two convicts at the Utah ' state penitentiary, were desperately and perhaps .mortally wounded in an encounter en-counter in the corridor of the prison early Monday morning. As the result of the conflict Hamilton is confined in the prison hospital, breathing in gasps through a perforated lung, and suffering suffer-ing from other wounds, while Brown is lying in his narrow cell unconscious uncon-scious from a rain of blows inflicted with an iron bar upon his head. Both men were horrribly mutilated in the affray and neither is likely to survive, according to the statement of Dr. A. C. Young, the prison physician. Neither of the wounded men will talk regarding the tragedy. The men occupied adjoining cells, and had been heard quarreling the night before, when Hamilton informed 3rown he ould "get him." The men were inarching down the corridor, Hamilton being' just behind Brown when suddenly sud-denly Hamilton drew from beneath his jacket a short iron bar and struck Brown on the head. Brown pitched forward and tumbled down the stairs. Hamilton, with a fiendish yell, sprang after the prostrate man, and struck him again before he rose. Brown luched forward and tottered to his feet, drawing at the same time a long knife from the folds of his jacket. Seizing the arm which held the iron bar with his left hand, he struck his assailant time after time with the knife. Loosening his arm from Brown's grasp, Hamilton struck the hand which held the knife and sent the weapon clattering along the cemented ce-mented floor. ; Unarmed and facing a desperate antagonist, Bron lost courage and |