Arizona republican., 1903-10-10
A PRISON BREAK
Attempted Wholesale DeIiv- eryFrom UtahP Penitentiary
Two Men Under Death Sentences Es- caped-The Other Prisoners Were
 Killed or Wounded and Captured.

Salt Lake. Utah. Oct. 9-.As result of a wel organized and q partly successful attempt at the wholesale delivery of prisoners of the Utah state penitcntiary tonight one ptisone: was killed. one guard was shot and wound ed, and another man was beaten al most into irsensibility three prisoners were wounded and two others under death sentences escaped.
 Dead:
 FRANK DAYTON, serving twelve year term for attempted highway rob bery.
 Wounded:
 Guard Wilkins, shot in the leg.
 Guard Jacobs, badly beaten by con- victs.
 Convict Ed Mullen. serving three year term. shot in leg.
 Convict Abe Majors, serving life term for murder of Captain Brown. of the Ogden police, shot in arm.
 Harry Waddell. serving seven-year term for burglary.
 Escaped:
 Nick Haworth, sentenced to death for murder of Night Watchman San dall in Layton. Utah.
 James Lynch, sentenced to death for murder of Col. Prowsc in a gambling house in this city three years ago.
 None of the wounded, it is believed are seriously hurt.
 A posse of prison guards with several blood hounds have promptly started on the trail of the two escaped convicts. but owing to darkness and the wild nature of the country in the immediate vicinity of the prison, no results are looked for tonight.
 The outbreak occurred about G:30 D.. m.. just as the prisoners were being placed in their cells for the night by Guards Will:in and Jacobs. The affair went through with such vim and pre- cision that il must have been carefully planned core hand. Two of the prisoners oVerp0W cred Wilkin and Jacobs. the former being shot and wounded and latter frightfully beaten. The conVicts took the prison keys from the guards and released five other prisoners who had already been locked up.
 Several prisoners then compelled Guard Wilkins. notwithstanding his in ! iuries. to march at their head and with the assistance of ladders found near the workshop, preceded to scale the wall. Wilkins was made to ascend 1 first
 | As the first convict reached the top, 1 Guard Naylor, who was on the south wall. opened fire. This was the signal 1 for q general alarm and several guards who were in the office. quickly seized their guns and hastened to the scene. | Guard Driggs reached the wall just 1 as Dayton and Mullen were descending 1 On the outside He ordered them to ! halt, but as they paid no attention to i the command. he fired, killing Dayton. A second shot struck Mullen in the | leg as he was coming down the ladder and he dropped to the ground, his body l falling oyer the corpse CT Dayton. The 1 other five convicts had succeeded in reaching the ground outside the wall when they were fired upon, by other | guards Abe Majors was shot in the arm and fell to thc ground. crying with pain.
 i Haworth was also shot and fell. but | quickly arose and continued his flight. 1 Waddell was shot in the leg. Lynch escaped uninjured. it is believed. After running about q hundred yards nom the wall Haworth dropped rope made | from blankets which was found stained i with blood. At the foot of the wall were found several cartridges which | the convicts dropped as they came over. Two of the prisoners are armed with Ievolvers. Where they secured the weapons is not known.