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Show CON VICT KILLS JAILER DESPERATE DEED OF CHRIST BENSON AT OLYMPIA, WASH. The Sheriff's Wife, With a Pistol in Hand, Pluckily Prevents the Other Prisoners From Escaping. Christ Benson, a grand larceny prisoner pris-oner in jail at Olympia, Wash., on Sunday afternoon killed Jailer David Morrell and made his escape. Bensor left open the inner and outer doors of the jail. Mrs. Jessie Mills, wife of the sheriff, arrived on the scene with a revolver in time to present seven prisoners pris-oners from gaining their liberty. Benson, Ben-son, who was a logger, was accused of stealing $45 from his partner, pleaded guilty, and about a week ago was sentenced sen-tenced to one year's imprisonment and was in jail waiting to be transported to the penitentiary. Saturday night, the steel tank being crowded, Benson, who was considered a quiet prisoner, was placed in an ante-room off the main entrance of the jail. In the night Benson wrenched loose a piece of lead drain pipe, and concealed, it ...in his whinr Ahrmr 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon Jailer Morrell gave the prisoners pris-oners their midday meal in the main corridor, and then started to lock all but Benson and a trusty named Kahla into the steel tank. He had his back-to back-to Benson and was locking the door when Benson struck him on the head. . The door of the corridor was open and Benson ran out into the main entrance en-trance with the jailer in pursuit. Benson Ben-son failed to get the outer door open and the two men clinched in the main entrance. - It is supposed that Morrell drew his revolver and that Benson succeeded In getting it away. There was a desperate fight, in which Morrell Mor-rell was truck on the head four times with the pipe, shot in the body twice and through the head once, and left lying dead on the floor. Benson got the outer door open, and, covered with blood, ran up one of the main residence' resi-dence' streets of the town and disappeared disap-peared In the brush. |