Show A MURDEROUS MANIAC 1 enacts a blo bloody aay tragedy in lu the mo state penitentiary by western preb to the ii lIero erald lJ cm CITY mo doc I 1 13 the rhe facts are learned this even evenin inz ofa of A bloody tragedy which occurred shortly shorty I 1 y after arter midnight ht last diehi in the tut auff hospi till dihe odthe state ile penitentiary john mason a convict co who had been considered haruie lessly insane arose and securing ft a heavy iron poker went into an adjoining room roum where his fellow patients we were re sleeping bodeau charles signor three terrible blows over the head breaking the skull over each cach eye lie ile then fr fractured the 13 lull of juchs passing quiet quickly ay to tho the ato 1111 11 u war ivard d I 1 ho ID at tack tacked ed andy allison ored I 1 another beever cutting liim him in the head and face and an artery in the tile head at this juncture an epileptic negro being aroused stole aole upon maeon almon from froni behind and grappled with A fill him the guard guards attention was by this t time ime attracted and rus rushing in ho ana overpowered I 1 the ma maniac was at ut once disarmed sar nied lianor Sic norand and r aro are still RIM but cannot recover it is thought al albona in jurica are aro not fatal all the victims are convicts C confined on lined in the department lor tho the hari harmless insane mason is 45 years of or age ind a F frenchman reach man by birth ho win bent sent up from st louis louls in for ten yeara years on qu ac cotilla of highway rob bary |