Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-08-02

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with two other prisoners at the State Prison
requested to be given other quarters because
his companions would not let him smoke III
the night. His request was granted, but in
degree, aroused the suspicious of the au-
thorities, which were vel! founded, as his com
panions Finnigan, Gfer, and David Wilson,
who was sentenced four years ago from
this county, to seven years imprisonment
for burglary, were perfecting engagements
to fire the prison. The cell that the three
upper row. With piece of gas pipe they
bored hole through the top and filled the
space between that and the joists with rags
saturated with coal oil, which they surrepti
tuously carried with them from the shoe
shop Then they whitfield candles down to a
dimension small enough to go through the
aperture they had bored, and which were also
we'll oiled that there would be no question
as to their blazing well enough for the tiend
ish purpose. The main iguiter which they
contemplated using, was candle cut
down close to the wick and covered with
shoemaker's wax dipped in coal OIL. This
article was found lying in the cell on the day
that Hines was removed, and 1t was also the
object which confirmed the officers suspicious
that there was some evil purpose on foot.
On Thursday the guard made thorough
examination of the cell and detected the
preparations that Finnigan and Wilson had
g. bo
of the State When the discovery was made
the two tends were heavily ironed and
thrown into a subteraneal dungeon, where
they now are The theory prevails that
to set the ball agoing on Thursday morning,
a short while before they were to be called out
for work, and by the time they reached the |
yard, the alarm of fire would be given, which |
would naturally create great excitement and !
in the midst of which they could |
escape, but having been deprived OF their
waxed candle through some unknown agency,
without which they would be unable to carry
ematic and sure a manner as they wished,
hey deferred their plans until such time as
hey could prepare another candle. There
ire others i'll the plot who have, as yet, not
wo in the dungeon, haven't the manhood
@ shield accomplices when they get
,aught in a bad scrape. The off GERS at
he prison are confident that Hines was totally
of hat no If hiS
ace companions were Had this fearful at
empt at mcendialism proved successful the
reater number of convicts would have been
oasted alive in their cells, and
hose who got out into the yard would
ave been unable to escape, con-
ldering the great precautions that are taken
here against such or any other mutlnous con
A guard yesterday visited the
ungeon in which the two rlngleaders are
onined, and found that they had drilled a
mall hole about nine inches deep, through ali
lghteen inch wall leading into another dan
con, but the tools used for the purpose have
OF yet been found by the officers; however,
here is no question respecting their ultimate ,
lsCOVeFy he TWO cOnNlcIS were Iuen lnoi- \
ughly searched. In one Of Wilson's shoes \
as found shoemaker's knife blade and in
he other piece of a saw blade ; these artl-
es were concealed under false inside sole,
ued down. In one of Finnigans pantaloons
IS a shoemaker's knife blade was also found, 4
WED in These fellows will be closely v
atched, and the toughest of prison fare will v
3 theirs for long while. In the case Of il
innigan it is perfectly natural that he should t
sort to the most desperate means to gain il
s freedom, as lifelong imprisonment stares Il
N in the face but with Wilson it is diff Il
re.t deducting the time served and accu- II
ulated credits, he had only two years and e
ur months more to serve. 1t is really
rtunate thing for the convicts that Wilson t,
ID Finnigan objected to Hines smoking, for q
d that not been the case the two hends Il
ight have carried out their hellish plot, 81
sting many life, while the State would t,
we been a great sufferer pecunlarly. h
neither any legal proceedings will be entered \
ainst Wilson has not been decided upon yet. a
natural death is too good for such infam- G.
g wretches. It
FIRST BLOOD FOR THE RAILRoAD-Yes il
day an engineer named C ffnrd, was in the Il
ice of train dispatcher King, of the v & II
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