The San Francisco call., 1905-01-01
PRISON GRAVES
FOR CONVICTS
Men Killed in the Outbreak
at Folsom Are Buried in
the Penitentiary Cemetery
WARDEN rs DISPLEASED
DenOunces Sensational and
Untruthful Reports Pub
lished Concerning Trouble
Special Dispatch to The Call.

lished Concerning Trouble
Special Dispatch to The Call.
SACRAMENTO. Dec. 31.-The last
grim scene in the attempted prison
break at Folsom was enacted to-day
when the bodies of the three convicts-
H. c. Hill, ]. c. Quinlan and w. Nor
ales-killed by the guards, were laid
away in the cemetery, with stone slabs
bearing only their prison numbers to
mark their graves. Contrary to ex-
pectation, the burial was gone about
without the slightest attempt to i'm
press upon the rest of the prisoners
the warning which the incident natur-
ally conveyed to those of rebellious
spirits. Warden Yell evidently was
not disposed to have the dead con-
victs remembered by their associates
as martyrs. They were buried without
any more ado than if the procedure
was merely circumstance in the
prison management.
Warden Yell volunteered to The Call
correspondent tonight an expression
of the great annoyance he feels in
common with the other officers of the
prison at the sensational stories which
have been printed in certain paper
in San Francisco since the attempted
break.
The Warden declared that his name
and the names of his officers have been
blazoned forth daily as authority for
statements which they never made and
never dreamed of making Incidents
purporting to relate to the break were
detailed at length, he declared, which
had no foundation whatever except in
the imaginations of those who placed
them before the public. The Warden
spoke of one incident to illustrate what
he meant.
DENOUNCES STORIES.
A story was printed Friday with
great particularly as to detail that the
break had been so timed by the con-
victs as to enable them to jump on
the prison locomotive as soon as it
arrived on the grounds and ride on 1T
to Folsom and to freedom. The Call
this morning showed by the statement
of one of the leading conspirators, j.
w. Finley, personally verified as cor
rect by Warden Yell himself, after in
vestigation, that this was not the plan
of the convicts at all, but that they
intended to cross the American River
at once and seek their liberty on the
farther shore. Yet the same locomotive
y
ITO show how absurd that story is"
said Warden Yell tonight, II have
only to mention the fact that as soon
as the locomotive enters the prison
yard a switch is thrown and securely
locked. This effectually imprisons the
locomotive. If any body except the
prison officials start the locomotive the
switch will not be unlocked and the
locomotive will be ditched before 1t can
OQf cf6a tho grounds had this
arrangement put into effect the very
day l came here, and it has been faith
fully observed ever since, and all the
prisoners know it. 1 do hope that that
story of escape by the locomotive
route will now rest in peace"
BETTER PROTECTION NEEDED.
Warden Yell said he hoped that the
lesson OF the attempted break would
not be lost in the forthcoming Legisla-
ture and that more walls would be
provided for safeguarding the prison.
ers, instead of depending wholly upon
the guards. Asked with reference to
the procedure to be followed in bring
ing the live conspirators to justice
when they recovered from their inju-
ries, Warden Yell said he would pro-
duce all the evidence and then allow
the law to take it's course.
District Attorney Seymour said to-
night that he would prosecute COnvictS
Carson, Quijada and Finley under the
new State law which provides the
death penalty for any prisoner serv-
ing a life sentence who assaults a
prison guard with a deadly weapon.
Seymour said he would take the neces-
sary steps as soon as the wounded
prisoners were able to leave the hos
pital. The State is obliged to defray
the expense of these prosecutions. The
prosecution of the convicts recaptured
after the break of July 81, 1903, has al
ready cost the State in jury and wit
ness fees. ETC., fully $4,000. Seymour
said 1t was the policy of Governor
Pardee to spare no expense on the
prosecution of those guilty of break
ing the laws while undergoing the laws
penalties, and that the present cases
would prove no exception.
Guard Charles jolly. who was acci-
dentally shot in the neck during the
fight with the conyicts, is still resting
easily, and no complications are looked
for. Captain Murphy is rapidly re-
covering from his wounds. The condi-
ton of Convict Kelly. who was rid
died with bullets, is still serious, but
the other wounded prisoners appear to
be on the way to recovery.