The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-04-13
SMEARED WITH BLOOD
Were the Grounds of the
Prison Yard of the State
Pen, and
The Rounds of the Golden Stair
Climbed by Two Jefferson
City ConvIcts.

Yesterday afternoon, IN Jefferson lily,
there occurred one OF those horrible double
tragedies which s-vm to have been too
near brute-inspired 10 own the authorship
of man. In this rase the victims were
happily two criue-stained NEIL wearing
the striped livery Of their disgrace, instead
Of citizens more valusble and more worthy.
The two men who
FELL BLOODY VICTIMS,
the ore Of his comrades rage, and the
other OF his own indomitsble, heil-given,
obstinate courage, were Martin Broderick,
sent up from ST. Louis county, and John
Smith, an alias, committed from s.. Fran.
cons county.
During the afternoon the two men were
working together in the prison yard, at
enough distance from the nearest man TO
leave the cause of difficulty unknown,
when they were observed to have
FURIOUS QUARREL.
A brief hand-to-hand tussle was had, when
Smith, by violent effort threw Broder-
lex from him, seized spade which he had
been using at his work, in both hands, and
whirling it up over his head brought
it down on the unprotected skull
of Broderick, whose cap had fallen of in
the struggle, with terrible effect. The
wo1nded man reeled heavily forward, but
before ne could fall to the ground another
murderous blow had followed its fellow
and then Broderick fell
LIKE A SLAUGHTERED OK,
his brains oozing from his fractured
skull.
Smith then cast around him . hurried
glance and, seeing no one, walked rapidly
toward the tool hose. Ii was his inten-
ton to escape recognition a. Broderick's
companion. He had. OF course, no oppor-
tuni,y of leaving the prison, but sought
merely to get out of the yard.
At the gate of the tool house he was
sTcPPED BY GUARD,
who ordered him to lay down his spade
and give himself up. What this guard had
been doing during the time which was &C
cupied BY Smith IN numbering Broderick
does not appear The fellow seems TO
have witnessed the murder and TO have
waited at the gate OF the tool house until
Smith started 10 come out The wardens
are little reiiceDt in accounting for this
singular action.
Smith, with all his passion nov afire,
glowing With the sense Of the desperate
strength which
ONCE FILLED CAIN,
scoffingly disrrgarded the order to stop
anu, raising his spade To menacing poi-e,
continued TO advance steadily ioward the
weaponed guard. crying out that he would
die before he would surrender.
A deputy warden, who also appe.rs to
have been somewhere in the brush, now
showed himself and added his authorits-
tive voice To The command IF the guard
Smith still advanced, reiiersting his Al
severation that he
would DIE FIRST"
With q courage which would under any
other circumstances kindle great adml-
ration, he bent his unwavering course, with
uplitted spade in hand, directly towards
the gaping mouths Of the cooked revolvers
training certain death upon him.
When Smith was few feet distant, the
deputy warden and the guard began firms
upon him. He fell without q groan, one
bullet having pierced his heart, and ;w,
other fatal wounds being inflicted. H,
was dead instantly, and almost before the
officials could reach him.
Frederick lived City minutes, never re
gaining consciousness, and then died
His blood bespattered head and face, gap
ing skull, from which his brains had run
presented . sight at once horrible and dis
gueting.
The affair has created much exciiemeu
At Jefferson City. despite Official effort. Z.
keep it from the newspapers, the local one