The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-05
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 JAIL WALLS Desperate Attempt to Break Prison. FIVE CONNECTS IN PLOT Led by Member of Miller Duncan Gang. Four of Them Are Shot Down by tho
 Guards. Two Being Fatally Injured-one Gains His Freedom.
FIVE CONNECTS IN PLOT

6irmingham, Sept. 4.-(Special. l--Tou Fay, member of the noted Miller pun- can safe-blowfng gang and now serving an eighfeen-year sentence for safe-blow- ing, led gang of five men in an effort to gain liberty at 12:5o o'clock this morn ing from the penitentiary at Pratt Mines. Slope No. ?. One of the five men xot away and the four others were shot down by guards. two of them being fatally wounded.
 The attempt at escape was most sensa- tional. the convicts using dynamite with which to get out and then fin attacking the guards who fired on them. The men were among fifty ur sixty white convicts serving sentences from one to ninety years for various crimes. The men who went with Fay were James Amory. of Clarke County, serving twenty-year sentence Tor robbery; Thomas Melvin of Wilcox County, serving five years for burglary; Richard Kennebroek. serving four years for burglary: John Brewer. known as cowboy" serving seven years for larceny from person.
 Tom Fay, the Leader.
 Fay did the first work. that of blowing a way out of the penitentiary. A stick of dynamite was placed so as to blow down the water closet which Is attached to the end of the big cell containing the white prisoners. The dynamite was light ed and 1t went off with loud report. walk the cell but all the guards in and around the prison. The water closet was blown down and the five men began going through the space made.
 Fay was shot early after the closet was blown down. 4 bullet from one of the yard guards struck him in the calf of the ieft leg, crippiing him. Kinnebrook and Brewer and Melvin sought refuge from the firing of Guards E. B. McCrary and Archie Wyatt. behind ssnae small timber used in the mines little way from the prison in the yard. Amory went directly to the fence and got out and made ofl. Kinnebrouk then fixed < piscs of dynasnlfe with fuse and threw it at the guards. It exploded dangerously near thein but with no effect. A second piece of dyna- mite was thrown. While the third piece was being prepared bullet from one of the guards pistol struck Kinnebrook go- ing through his entire body and causing him to drop. Brewer had run In the meantime towards the fence as had Nell win. A third guard, Will Green. came to the assistance of the other two men and then opened fire on the men at the fence. Brewer fell with buck shot through him just as he reached the fence. Melvin fell of the fence with bullet grazing his foot.
 Atnory Gets Away.
 Amory could not be found, though dogs were secured and an effort made to strike a trail. He is a young man. A reward of $50 Is offered for his recapture. He weighs 130 pounds and is feet 5 f-2 inches tall. All his front teeth are filled.
 After the shooting subsided the four injured men were hastened to the hos pital of the penitentiary where they were attended by the physicians. Kinnebrool< and Brewer are believed to be fatally in- jured. the physicians announcing that Kinnebrook could hardly survive the day. Kinnebrook pleaded guilty last year to robblng the store of M. Well & Bro. in Birmingham. Brewer ceme to Birming- ham at the last fair with sr-aumber of Indians and cowboys from Bliss. Indian Territory. He was charged with robbing Frank Brundidge. a local scrip buyer of $2S0. He was arrested in Louisville and brought back to Birmingham. Fay tg only slightly injured. This morning when talked to in the hospital he said he had bad luck again and that his efforts to set away had come out badly. Melvin went to work in the mines today.
 Had the fifty men in the big cell gone out after the water closet was blown down between thirty and forty of them would have escaped The work of the three guards is being commended. 1t showing bravery and accurate shooting.