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Show CONVICT STABS WONGUARSS Captain Dies Instantly and Assailant Lies at Death's Door LEAVENWORTH, Kan . Nov. 15. Joe Martinez, Mexican murder con let. who shortly before noon Tuesday fa- ! tally stabbed A. H Leonard, captain! : of the guards at the federal peniten- j , tiarj li re. was said to be In a serious condition in the hospital where he was taken after he had stabbed Leon- ard and knifed six other guards. j Martinez was captured by guards only afte he had been shot and after' j he had been pelted with coal in the coal bunker where he hid after the' I stabbing Hospital authorities say I that he has a fractured skull and i may die. J AM ir;i GKIEY N 1 In thi opinion of tho warden. W. j I. Riddle, the man fancied he had jsonie sort of grievance against Leon-j t ard. fashioned the knlfo from a piece, of steel and used the improvised wea- j pon at the first opportunity. Leonard was looked upon In the prison as a tearless ffuard and It Is said numer-OU8 numer-OU8 threats to "get him" were made by prisoners. He Is survived by a Wife and three children. After prisoners had been taken to ' tho barber shop Tuesday morning, ' on of them warned William Daidge, I guard, that Martinez was carrying a knlfi- roldge demanded the knife, j Martinez replied by stabbing the j guard Joseph Lurkln another guard approached and attempted t disarm the apparently crazed man. Martinet stabbed him in the left side, the bladi entering the iiart Captain Leonard' Staggered a few feet and ft II "He got me!" Leonard said to a fellow officer. I OTHERS STABBED. By this time other guards had been attracted to the seem- Martinez was stabbing right and left, He knifed Guards Martin Lengyel, George Lo- gan, M. V. Dunkel and James Calvin, i The two last named were only silghriy) wounded. The condition of Doldge. Lengyel and Durkln. while serious, Is UOt thought to be critical. Inflamed by the excitement and bloodshed at the penitentiary, Tony i Llthelakls, a Greek murder convict, made an assault upon Louis F West, negro orderly, with an Improvised dagger Tuesday night. Llthelakls. serving a 20-year sentence, sen-tence, is said to have felt a deep hatred ha-tred for Captain Leonard, who WSJ Stabbed and killed Tuesday morning, and Is also said to hae expressed disappointment that he did not ba in opportunity to perpetrate the deed himself Llthelakls was convicted of murder in Valdez, Alaska, and sentenced to the McNeil Island penitentiary. Ho was transferred to Leavenworth in ! November, 1919. and since that time-he time-he has been Implicated in several prison ploti. one of which was a con-iplracy con-iplracy to kill Captain Leonard and Warden W. I. Diddle. West la one ot the convicted ITous-ton ITous-ton rioters He had established a g-ood record since his Imprisonment and had been made a prison orderly. |
