The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-14
DESPERATE MEN HATCH
PLOT IN STATE PRISON
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but he still refused to go and stood
looking over the railing defying the
guards to come and get him. Warden
Pratt told the men not to take any
chances with him and was about ready
to give IRE orders TO shoot when Guard
Cleveland crept up. behind Deming and
knocked him down with a blow on the
mead 1t did not render him uncon-
scious and he began to fight again. 1t
was not until he had been beaten into
Inconsistencies that he could be taken
to his cell. He was stripped and again
searched, but no other weapon was
found in his possession.
Deming and Sullivan were then placed
in the ''tombs," where they will remain
for some time to come.
Long in the Hatchina.
The plan to make the escape had no
doubt been under consideration for
some time, and each day the three des-
perate convicts We're getting ready for
the fight which they must put I'D.
On Sept. % Deming is to be tried be-
fore Judge Armstrong on the charge of
destroying Jail property. 1t was his
plan to have Joe Sullivan and Abe Ma
jors called as witnesses. When the
men had left the prison on the way to
court they were to attack the guards
in charge of them and make their es-
cape
from confinement than he began prepara-
tons for his escape. In the shop he
found piece of steel. This he sharp
ened to needle point. He made handle
OF piece of wood, but by some means he
broke the steel blade, making it too short
to use a wooden handle. He then tore
several strips from his blanket and
wrapped these around the end of the steel
IN, Iii
he could have caused much damage.
Others in Plot.
Warden Pratt also discovered Sunday
by notes written by Deming that there
are one or two other men in the plot
One note found in Demings possession
was in cipher and could not be transat-
ed by the officers. The other note was
to another prisoner asking him TO trust
him in the coming break and render him
his help. He spoke in the note of his knife
and also said that he intended to kill one
or two of the guards. The note also con-
tanned the information that he intended
to use the knife at the trial. The note
was written on a scrap of paper but was
not addressed to anyone. Deming had
signed his initials and cautioned the man
to destroy the note.
The three men implicated in the plot are
without doubt the most desperate in the
prison today Deming made his escape
from the county officers last winter by
so good he was taken to Holy Cross hos
pital. At night, while the guard was
asleep he escaped from the hospital in
his night clothes. Some weeks later he
was arrested in Huntington, Ore, and re-
turned to the county Jail
1t was while Deming was awaiting trial
that Sullivan was arrested. The pair by
some means secured saws and attempted
to cut their way out. They were discov-
cred at their work after they had one
bar sawed.
Deming was found guilty of grand lar
ceny and sentenced to serve a term of ten
years.
Sullivan for Life.
Sullivan was sentenced on May % TO
serve a life sentence for the murder of
Police Officer Ford last winter The muir
der was committed after Sullivan and Joe
Garcia had held up the Albany saloon.
He was arrested a month later at Seattle.
Soon after being taken to prison he made
a murderous assault on Nick Prussing.
another convict, whom he claimed had
Sheriff Emery of his attempt
to escape from the county Jail
Abe Majors is serving a life sentence
for the murder of Captain of Police Brown
of Ogden. Majors and his brother were
attempting to escape from the police after
robbery. when they became
engaged in a fight. Majors brother was
killed and he in turn killed Captain
Brown He has been involved in several
other breakssat the prison, and was shot
In the leg by the guards when he at
TO escape at the time of the at
tempted break made several years ago.