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Show PRISONERS FOILED WHEN GUARD FIRES I . SALT LA EE E Sept. 26 After falling to scale the wall of tho state prison. I . iv, of a rope when th guards ilnd upon them, two convicts escaped Identification yesterday by mingling with the other prisoners In the yards. According to Warden James Deylne, it wus ubout the hour for. changing guard shuts, nnd at a point where th-y WOUtd I"- visible only to the guard in th- sentry box at the northeast corner of the north wall, the two men separated separ-ated from the crowd of convicts and hurried across the eight foot limit to th foot of the wall near cell house No. 1. Then one of Uiem threw the rope toward the top of the, wall. The rope was made of four five-foot lengths of window cord from the dining room with a meat hook nt the end. The hook failed to catch the top of the wall. As the rope fell back Into the interior Guard Roger Jones in th" northeast sentry, box fired two shots ot the men. Warden Devlne said that It was Im-possible Im-possible to have recognized the two men at the distance Intervening be- H Itween them and the guard |