The L'Anse sentinel., 1898-09-24
Convict Dick Huntley Stabs a
Deputy Warden of the Mar
quette Branch Prison.
MURDER OF THE WARDEN
Was Also COntemplated-Hunt-
ley Has a Very Bad
Record.

Eugene d. Mosher, deputy warden
at the Marquette branch prison was
seriously, and it was thought for a
time, fatally stabbed there Sunday
morning by Jackson incorrigible
named Dick Huntley, says the Min
ing Journal.
The assault occurred in the prison
mess. Huntley was the only man
taking active part, but it has been
discovered since that several Others
were in the plot, or at least cogniz-
ant of Huntley's designs, and that
the murder of Warden Freeman was
also contemplated.
Mosher is stabbedin the abdomen,
in the back and in the arm, but there
is believed to be no question of his
recovery.
The inmates of the prison are
given their meals in large mess
room, and while they eat they are
under guard of all the inside guards
of the prison. Deputy Warden
Mosher was one who was watching
them at their Sunday morning
breakfast.
Huntlev was some distance from
the deputy, but, seIzing what he
took to be a favorable opportunity,
he sprang from his seat and rushed
at Mosher. AS he ran he drew from
some place of concealment in his
clothes dirk made of knife which
he or some other convict must have
stolen from the kitchen and had
ground down.
His first attempt was to plunge
the dirk into the deputy's stomach,
but the knife only passed through
the clothes and into the flesh little
distance. This wound alone might
have easily been fatal, but for the
intervention of sanother prisoner, a
halfbreed Indian, who has been an
inmate of the institution only a
week.
Il didn't want to see him kill the
big sheriff" he explained, when
asked why he had reached out and
grabbed his infuriated fellow convict,
as he was raising his arm for the blow
Mosher grappled in death strug-
gle with his assailant, but Huntley
managed to continue control of the
hand which held the weapon, and be-
fore it was wrested from him he
struck Mosher two more blows, one
in the small of the back and the
other in the arm.
In the excitement of the moment
pandemonium threatened. Other
prisoners leaped from the table and
seized bottles or whatever they
thought might answer the purpose
of weapons.
"Well get the black =
neXt! cried one of them, referring
to the warden.
The electric alarm bells, which
were soon ringing in every part of
the prison, sounded in the private
rooms of the warden, where he was
lying in bed, half sick. He jumped
up, pulled on his clothes and hurried
to the scene of the trouble.
His first order was for the con-
victs to march back to the cell cor
ridors and get into their cells. The
command was sullenly obeyed.
Ten or dozen, Huntley among
them, walked as far as their cell
doors, and there with fine display
of bravado, refused to go any further.
"Get into your cells, commanded
the warden.
No attention was paid to the COM
mand.
IF they don't ge. in, shoot them,
he ordered.
Got gang you can't run now,
sneered Huntley. Guards can't
shoot.
'Shoot him!' cried the warden,
and on the instant the guard near
est let 60 with his gun.
Huntley sprang for his cell door
as the guard raised to fire.
"Pingr' the shot rang out. But
Huntley had got too far for it to re.
suit fatally, though the loss of a
thumb as he flew through the door.
way showed that the guard had shot
to kill.
This demonstration of force cowed
the rest and they scurried into their
cells like so many rats into their
holes.
The search of the suspects that
followed brought to light five knives
all very similar to the one used by
Huntley in his assault.
Huntley is one of the worst of the
many, incorrigibles housed in the
branch prison. He was transferred
to Marquette from Jackson with the
first lot, and has always been re-
garded by the Officers Of both in
stitutions as thoroughly bad con-
vict.
huntley is the convict who made
an atte,...,. On the life of Deputy