The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-10
CONVICT SLAIN
IN CALIFORNIA
PRISON STRIKE
One Is Shot to Death and Two
Are Wounded During Riot
in the Big Dining Room
at San Quentin.
LIVE STEAM PUTS
STOP TO DISORDER,
Warden Believes Dernonstra-
ton a Symptom of Unrest
That Has Recently Ap-
peared in All Prisons.

steam was turned into the kitchen
OF San Quentin penitentiary be-
| fore malignant prisoners grub
| strike" that broke ont today In
the dining room, about the middle Of the
afternoon meal, could ba quelled.
One rioter was shot dead In a door
way Of the dining room by an outside
guard on the prison wall, and one was
| wounded. one Innocent prisoner was
| struck by a glancing bullet, one guard
was badly cut In tho back OF the head
| by flying vinegar cruet and numerous
| prisoners who had and had not joined
| in the demonstration were bruised and
battered by table tops torn loose from
| their trcstles. overturned benches and
heavy tin cups.
Active bedlam lasted twenty minutes
The live steam in the kitchen and the
crack OF the guards rifle from the wall
but two shots were fred-did their work
quickly. But the uproar, the shrieks, the
| yells, and the curses continued late into
| tho night.
AS the evening star rose out OF San
Pablo bay and the purple mantle OF twi-
| light settled about the shoulders of the
mountains. woman's full contralto rich
and pure. floated from her cell out into
the prison yard. out over the prison wall,
and the words that she sang were:
I'm wearing my heart away for YOU"
Wild Prison Cry.
The cadence fell and died into the
| night, Succeeding it came all the hid
| eous. nameless clamor Of the prison cry
Compounded of hate, fear, Ioathing and
derision. 1t found voice in a harsh dis
cord OF screams. yellss growlings, and
| piercing whistles
How many voices went to make 1t, with
the cells from which 1t came, it was the
business OF the guards tonight to report
| Out Of nineteen hundred and odd prison.
ers, probably between two and three hun
dred were active rioters
The dead and wounded were not ring
leaders-only active demonstrants. II, L,
Lypwood. a naval prisoner committed
| from Alcatraz Island last March for de-
| sertion and impersonating an officer, was
| the prisoner shot dead. He was under
sentence for six and one half years and
had done time before at Salem, Or. He
was shot through the breast and died al
most instantly
Frank Taylor, a negro. under sentence
OF twenty years for robbery comrnitte ed
in San Francisco. and also an active riot
cr, was shot through the hand. He is
| not seriously injured.
The bullet sped through his flesh
struck the floor and. glancing upward,
wounded H. A. George, a prisoner who
was trying to escape from the hurly-
burly in the leg.
Taylor and George are the only hos
pital list OF the ARRAY, The live steam
did moro to blipd and frighten the men
than actually to hurt them. The Injured
guard was about his duties last night.
Warden Warned.
Warden Hoyle had been warned yes
terday that some sort OF a demonstra-
ton might be expected last night 1t
failed to Taterialize But earlier In tho
day there had been smaller edition OF
what happened this afternoon.
"ODe guard was soused with soup,
| SAID the warden tonight, "but lie wasn't
scslded. The soup was only lullewarm."
An official whose duties were In the
prison yard, however. discussed the ef
| feet OF the steam the convicts. say
| Ing that none OF them was much scaldcd
| by 1t. The real ringlcadcr, Warden
Hoyis believes, Is known.
"a vast majority of the men wanted
| none OF the disturbance and were scurry-
| Ing for their cells, where they are
| checked present or absent Immediately
after the call" he said Some OF the
| rioters blocked the exits. OF which there
| are three.
'Lynwood. who was killed. was one of
| the bloclcrs.
But the real ringlcadcr was careful
| TO establish an alibi. He slipped into the
| yard, where I could not fail to see him. rs
soon the trouble started"
Guards Watch Closely.
The warden sat talking In little arbor
overlooking thr prison. As he paused TO
| light a cigarette the flamo OF the match
| showed one armed guard behind handing
| a loaded double barreled shotgun to an
other,
Colonel George Duffy. president OF tile
board of prison directors, stepped I'm to
| Join him. Prison riots. they said. were
| obscure matters The present grub |
| strike was supposed TO he protest |
against the quality OF food served In |
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