Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-03-18
BURNED TO DEATH PRISONER IN JAIL SETS
 HIMSELF ON
 FIRE. He W7s Insane From Drink and His Body Was Ghareed to 2 crisp
 When Found.
He Wes Insane From Drink and His

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 The victim of the fire was Michael McDormott, forty years old, who w.s %e4t to the jail for len days from the first criminal court of Newark .s; a drlt'.en SaSabond. He developed de IiriaHf treHlpns and became Il raying maniac
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 .AaaHt n o'ei9ei: Keepers LaWrcnce fseitA and Iohl Cox saw smoke com 'n& atn.zli ifle vest end of the north 'o"rido. oa the iir5t floor They made i5fiea ig5Psti9ation and found tEat tise s."9#,p H'.s issuing from the mir lo1, o,faAiH% above the door of the pad 'led crll. With a Icy Cox had at his aeit the door was unlocltcd As the keepers threH il open sheet of flame burst out, forcing tAem back. ReaiZ- ing that the inmate of the cell was hIl tn 1 In l lacn fn attempts to rescue him, but were forced to desst by the flames. Cox rang the fire gong, summonlng all the attendants in the jail
 A moment afterward pr. William Diamond, the warden, was on the scene. He issued hurried orders to send in an alarm to the city fire de- partment and to unlock the doors of all cells in the north corridor, where about sixty men cOnvicts were con fined.
 Although the warden and his assist ants used every effort to calm the pris- oners, pani reigned. The clang of the gong resoun1ed through every cell and corridor in the iai In the women's Nei'af flheht' WHICH IS III part oI tHo building remote from the north corridor suspelse added to the growing terror, Sor t!ie inmates were unable to know now great the peril was which threat ened them and feared tha worst. Even when assured tllat there was no dan ger th2I coHtiaHri to shriek and i1-i plo:a to be released i Nhsn tie dre,aea arrived thay turn ell bose on tir Jlrains cell. which H.a:, "'o'. j.!- .,,d <"@thn- like q fur Haeo, and quic'.y sU ,dued the flames. In th" req" of the cell lay McDermotts Clarred bo}y Whether he was suifo- catcd or whether. the flames caused his. death will never be known.