The Arizona sentinel., 1900-03-21
4 DASH FOR LIBERTY.
Five Conyiets Make a Futile Attempt
 to Escape.

to EscapS.
 Last Wednesday evening five of tn, twenty one convicts employed on th' excavations on First street chose the least desirable place on the whole route of march to make a dash fol liberty. ". H. Buck. s. w. Bayley and J. c. Stevens were in charge and while marching from work few min utes after four o'clock and while pass ing down Jones street, the five sud- denly broke the lIne of march and commenced to mark double time down Rincon alley.
 The break happened 90 suddenly and so unexpectedly that the guards were several seconds in realizing what had happened, but the remaining number were soon brought under con trol and attention turned to the fleeing stripes. J. c. Stevens fired several shots while they ran down the alley, the reports of which informed the populace that something unusual was happening and people started on a rush to the scene of operations.
 The only white man in the crowd, Gatlin. left the bunch and took cross lots and was captured in the rear of the Buffete by L. c. Stahl The others, the three Baca brothers and Miguel Juardiola. drifted over to Gila street and ran towards the levee. ". H. Buck was after that bunch and when he came in sight he called to them to stop several times as he ran but they needed not, and raising his rife and 1 firing MT. Juardiola, who was some fifteen feet distant from the three brothers, fell with bullet through his body. When he fell the other three stopped and threw up their hands.
 Thus was one man mortally wound ed and the other four locked up in less than fifteen minutes after the rashly planned break was attempted. Juar- diola dled the next day and the four others are ornamentsd with balls and chains while they perform their lahors.
 Miguel Juardiola WAS short time man from Maricopa county but one of the most desperate and annoying con- vlcts ia the pen. The three Baca brothers might have been shot down, but Juardiola would not have been daunted until bullet laid him low, thus was life and time saved by killing him. Some time ago he addressed a letter to friend with instructions to get pistol tC him, stating that he had plenty opportunities to escape if he only had a gun. A released pris- Oner undertook to deliver the message, but before leaving the "pen" all pris- oners are rigidly searched. and Juar- diola's letter was found in the bottom of the discharged mans stocking next to his foet.
 - Gatlln is ten-year man also from Maricopa, he being the longest termer who attempted to escape.
 There are four of the Baca brothers incarcerated in the peneten tiary and each one Is sent from a different county in the territory. Another brot her was indicted by the Maricopa county grand Jury at the last erm of court but the tial jury disagreed on a verdict and the family in the pen was not favored with his presence Some student of psychology might find an interesting branch of study in this family of criminals.
 A man who breaks the law of the land deserves no privileges and the only way to deal with a convict is to shoot him when he runs. Ii a guard shuts beth-eyes and shoots in the air : the prisoner will soon find it out and give trouble, but if a guard shoots to kill the prisoner will also fud it out and give verylittle trouble. The killing of Juardiola will doubtless have sal utary effect, for a time at least, upon those who may contemplate running and trusting to the guards humanity not to shoot to kill.