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Show UATTLK OK CONVICTS: DESPERATE STRUGGLE OCCURS BEHIND PRISON WALLS. Two Desperate Crlmlnala Engage lfl a Ouet to the Death. One Bein Armed With a Knife and the Other With an Iron Bar, William Drown and Kd. W. Ifatnll-ton, Ifatnll-ton, two convlcta at the Utah state penitentiary, were deliberately lnij perhaps mortally wounded In an en counter In tho corridor of the brlmn early Monday morning. Aa tho result of the conflict Hamilton la confined m the prlaon hospital, breathing In u through a perforated lung, and luffcr Ing from other wounda. while Drown la lying In his nsrrow cell oaron-Bclotia oaron-Bclotia from a rain of hlowa Inflicted with an Iron bar upon his head. Bulb men were horrrlbly mutilated ln the affray and neither la likely to aurvlvo, according lo the statement of Dr. A. C. Young, the prlaon phyaldsn. Neither of tho wounded men will, talk regarding the tragedy. The mem occupied adjoining rella, and had been beard quarreling the night before J when Hamilton Informed Drown hi 1 otild "get him." The men we'ra inarching down tha corridor, Hamilton being Just behind llrown when and-donly and-donly Hamilton drow from beneath his Jacket a ahort Iron bar and slnirk Drown on the head. Drown pitched forward and tumbled down the atalra. Hamilton, with a fiendish ynll, sprang after tha proatrato man, and struck bint again before he rose. Ilmti lurhed forward and tottered to hla feet, drawing at tho same time a leaf knife from the folds of iila").' Belling the arm whlrh htld tha I roe bar with his left hand, he struck tit assailant time after tlmoj with tat knife. Loosening hla arm froB Drown a grasp, Hamilton struck th hand whlrh hold the knife and seal tha weapon clattering along the ee mented floor. Unarmed and facing a deaporau antagonist, Uron loat courago ui ifl-d. Dashing madly up the atalra he rushed back to hla cell. Hamilton j followed In close pursuit, beating the man over the head with tha Iron bar las he ran. Drown reached the cell, hut tried vainly to cacape hla assailant. assail-ant. He waa beaten Into Insensibility before the guard and other prisoners could separate the combatants. Doth Bon are so seriously Injured that there Is no hope for recovery. Drown was serving forty-year anntenre for mur- 'derlng a Chinaman In Ogden, while Hamilton had boon aent up from Bait iLake county for throe years for assault as-sault with Intent to commit murder. |
