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Show IDE A BOLD ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE Convicts Saw Hole Through Floor, Are Slopped By Prison Authorities Salm, Ore., March 29. By sawing their way through the bars ot a pavement pave-ment floor of a building, convicts ma.de a bold attempt to escape rrom the penitentiary early this morning. The prison official were cognizant ot tho plot, however, and with armed guards awaiting their exit, the prisoners prison-ers were held up at tho point or as many ping as they made a bolt ror liberty, and. with hands held high in tho air, all were ordered back Into the prison through the same hole rrom' which they had emerged. John Branton. the leader and principal prin-cipal mover in the outbreak, lies dead In the morgue, narlng committed suicide sui-cide by cutting his throat from ear to ear with a butcher knife. His three colleagues are securely locked In their cells and will bo punished pun-ished according to the rules of the Institution In-stitution in such cases. Branton, the dead convict, was serv--ing a ten-year sentence for assault with Intent to kill. |