The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1922-05-10
THIRTEEN CoNvICTs
INJURED IN MCTINf

hnr. hy bullets and buckshot yesterday
afternoon at 1:2o O'Clock when $50 or
more white convicts made bold out
break i'm the presence Of armed guards
and officers. The three story build
ing that houses the chair factory was
burnins in the basement while the
mutinous prisoners were defylng
prison officials. Fire hose was cut
and the armed forces claim they were
forced to use guns and rifles in order
to save the building and contents and
prevent a wholesale prison delivery.
Nathan Rosen and James H. Faulk-
ner we're taken to the ColumG-a hos
pital. Rosen is suffering from bull
let wound in the abdomen and Faux
ner was hit by bullets on the right hip
and left arm. Eleven other prison.
ers suffered from minor injuries but
were treated at the prison infirmary.
One hour after the outbreak occur
red and the unruly prisoners had been
locked in their cells in the man
prison, Jack Davis Of New York, VINO
is serving q ten year term for bur-
glary, openly defied and cursed a
strong body Of armed men and he
had to be punished before he would
become quiet. Davis is serving sent
ence for entering the home of Dr..
T. T. Moore, Jr., on Wales Garden,
forcing DR.. and Mrs. Moore to back
into bathroom at the point of pis-
toI while he robbed the house. 1t
will he renembe cd that Offic - ~.
SON met Davis at the corner Of Green
and Bull streets, the prisoner hnger-
ing between life and death for several
weeks as the result of pistol wound
inflicted while capturing him.
A. J. Rowe, another prisoner, stood
behind his cell door yesterday and
dared armed men to "come in and
have it out" Rowe is serving a two
year sentence on charge of house
breaking and larceny. He came up
from Marlboro county.
DR.. r. T. Jennings, prison physi-
clan, happened to be at the peniten-
tiary when the outbreak occurred and
he was assisted by DR.. P. E. Payne
in giving medical attention to the
wounded:
List of Injured.
The list Of injured and all prisoners
@save Guard Gillette, who was hit by a
tying missile, follows:
Nathan Roson, shot through ;.bdo-
intestine perforated i've tines.
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naont1ss
fesgers from Kerslsas.
bounty Admitted 20 penisentiary
July. 1921.
James IT. Faulkner, shot in right
hip and 1e arm. Carried to Columbia
hospital. Serving two year sentence
for housebreaking and larceny from
Greenville county. Admitted to peni-
tentiary October, 1921.
E. W. Frank, shot through right
shoulder, left shoulder and right
hand. Serving three year sentence for
house breaking and larceny from
Florence county. Entered Deniten-
;iary March, 1920.
Lucius Barton, shot through left
leg and left arm. Entered peniten-
.1iary January, 1922, to begin serving
Of seven year sentence for larceny
rom Aiken county.
John aBrnes, shot through right leg.
Serving 18 months sentence for as
sault and battery from Charleston
county. Admitted to peniten-
tiary July, 1921.
L. C. Nuns, shot in right hip, sur
face wound. Serving Is months sem
tence for housebreaking and larceny
from Aiken county. Admitted May,
1921.
Horace Anderson, shot through left
arm. Admitted to penitentiary from
Edgefield county, arch, 1922, to begin
ten year sentence for bank breaking.
Fred Suggs, shot through right leg.
; Serving six months sentence from
Richland nty for violation of the
prohibition laws. Entered peniten-
etiary February, 1922.
Jack Gregory, shot through right
arm, surface wound. Serving two
year sentence for carbreaking and lar
ceny from York county. Admitted to
penitentiary September, 1921.
Howard S. Clarke, shot through left
foot, ankle broken. Serving life term
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