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Show CONVICTS KILLED IN JAIL BREAK CANON CITY, Colo., April 23. Two convicts were killed, and two others anl a guard were wounded in a desperate des-perate attenpt of prisoners to escape from the slate penitentiary tonight. The dead: HARRY I50RPHY. ANDREW JOHNSON. The wounded: John Bradley. W. J. Williams. Cellhou6c Keeper Emery.. When Emery threw the lever to open the doors of the cellhouse to admit the members of the prison or-chcetra or-chcetra at S:30 tonight, Brophy, who had filed a key to his coll. Jumped into the corridor, drew a revolver he had concealed in his blankets aud shot Emery in the leg, disabling him. Brophy then unlocked the cells of Johnson, Bradley, Williams and John Miller with his improvised key. They then broke out one of the bars of a window that had been sawoJ nearly through, and using Emery's body as a shield, Brophy and Williams ofreed their way Into the prison yard. They were seen and challenged by a guard on the walls and Brophy answered an-swered by a fusillade of bullets. The guard returned the flro shooting shoot-ing Brophy through the head. Johnson John-son attempted to follow Williams and Brophy through the window and was shot and killed by another guaid Williams in the meantime had reached the shelter of the walls and was lighting the fuse attached to five sticks of dynamite which he had placed against the wall, when he was seen by Warden Tynan, who shot him in the leg Warden Tynan and Guard Russell rushed to the cellhouse where they found Bradley hiding In an empty celi with a bullet wound in tho ib-donien. ib-donien. It has not been ascertained how Bradley was hurt. Miller was found unhurt lu the cellhouso and locked up. j Brophy had evidently planned tho j attempt some time ago as tho key with which ho opened tho cells was of Intricate design and must bavo taken many weeks to make. |