The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-16
ARMED CONV|CTS
BREAK FOR LIBERTY
Carefully Planned Escape from
Utah State Penitentiary.
FOLLOWED BY BLOODHOUNDS
Two Under Death Sentence Escape
One Guard Shot and One beaten
Nearly to Death-One Convict
Killed; Three Wounded.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 10.-As q
result of well-organized and partly
successful attempt at wholesale de-
livery of prisoners at the Utah state
penitentiary last night, one prisoner
was killed, one guard was shot and
wounded. another man was beaten al
most to insensibility, three prisoners
were wounded and two others under
death sentences escaped.
The dead:
Frank Dayton, serving 12-year term
for attempted highway robbery.
The wounded:
Guard Watkins, shot in leg.
Guard Jacobs, badly beaten by con-
victs. --
Convict Ed Mullen, serving three
year term for burglary, shot in leg.
Convict Abe Majors, serving life
term for murder of Capt. Brown, OF
the Ogden police, shot in arm.
Harry Waddell, serving seven-year
term for burglary, dangerously wound
ed.
The escaped:
Nick Haworth, sentenced to death
for the murder of Night Watchman
Kendall, in Layton, Utah.
James Lynch, sentenced to death for
murder of Col Prowse in a gambling
house in this city three years ago.
A posse of prison guards with sew
eral bloodhounds was promptly started
on the trail of the two escaped con-
victs, but owing to darkness and the
wild nature of the country in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the prison, no re-
suits were looked for last night.
The outbreak occurred at $50 p. m,
just as the prisoners were being placed
in their cells for the night by Guards
Wilkins and Jacobs. The affair went
that it must have been carefully
planned beforehand. Two of the pris-
oners overpowered Wilkins and Jacobs,
the former being shot and slightly
wounded, and the latter frightfully
beaten. The convicts took the prison
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other prisoners who had already been
locked up. The seven prisoners then
compelled Guard Wilkins, notwith-
standing his injuries, to march at their
head, and, with the assistance of lad
ders, found near the workshop, they
proceeded to scale the wall. Wilkins
was made to ascend first.
When the, first convict reached the
top, Guard Naylor, who was on the
south side, opened fire. This was 1.-The
signal for a general alarm, and sew
eral officers who were in the office
quickly secured their guns and has
tened to the scene. Guard briggs
reached the wall just as Dayton and
Mullen were descending on the out
side He ordered them to halt, but as
they paid no attention to the COM
mand he fired, killing Dayton. A sec
ond shot struck Mullen in the leg as
he was coming down the ladder, and
he dropped to the ground, his body
falling over the corpse of Dayton. The
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 the ground, crying
with pain. Haworth was also shot and
fell, but quickly arose and continued
his flight Waddell was shot in the
leg. Lynch escaped uninjured, it is
believed After running about one
hundred yards from the wall, Haworth
dropped a rope made from blankets,
which was found stained with blood.
At the foot of the wall were found sew
eral cartridges, which the convicts
dropped as they came over.
Two of the prisoners were armed
with revolvers. Where they secured
the weapons is not known.