The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-07
.CONVICTS PAY. LIFE PENALTY.
 FOR MU TINY.
Four Days Outbreak In Ken lucky Ends When Gunmen Are Found Dead In Barri-
 caded Mess Hall Of Prison FLOOD OF HIGH PROOF AMMONIA WEAPON USED After Place Stormed, Troops Discover Griffith And Fer
 land With Bullets In Hearts, Evidently By Their Own Acts
,RN KENTUCKY STAT,

WESTERN KENTUCKY STATE PENITENTIARY, Ky, Oct. 6.-Monte Walters. Lawrence Griffith and Harry Ferland, three convict-m murder ers. were found dead when attackers entered the barricaded mess hall here Hate today.
 The gunmen were found dead on the second story of the mess hall when a storming party Of seven men entered the building after it had been flooded with high-9roof am monia.
 by a bullet during the siege. Grif- fifth ana Ferland were dead from pis- tol bullet wounds through the heart, suggesting they had committed sui- eide to escape death from the am- monia.
 Mess Hall Death Hole.
 Officials invaded the bullettorn mess hall stronghold of the three convict -murderers in the prison grounds here late today and found it a place of death.
 After the barricaded covert of the desperate trio had been flooded with fumes from high proof ammonia this afternoon 8 storming party of seven men entered the building. No sign of life was found on the ground floor of the two-story building.
 0au llOuSIy the luNaQerS moved to the second floor There they found the bodies of the mutineers, who died with the blood of three prison guards. a victim of the gunmen's au- tomatic pistols when the break for liberty was initiated early Wednes- day morning. on their hands.
 Monte Walters, fully dressed, ap- parently had been Killed by bullets fired during the siege Lawrence Griffith and Harry Ferland, his com- panions, stripped to the waist. were dead from bullet wounds through the heart. Griffith and Ferland, 1t was believed, died by their own pis- tols to escape the ammonia fumes Peace After s1 Hours.
 The storming party entered the mess hall at 5:19 o'clock. Authorities succeeded in investing the disputed barricade after a spectacular siege of S1 hours, in the course of which prison guards. reinforced by two de- tails of Kentucky. national guards men, riddled the building with wither- ing barrages of steel jacket bullets from high powered rifles and two machine guns; swept the Interior of the building with the shrapnel formed by bursting rifle grenades and twice succeeded in placing tear gas on the building.
 The siege wore on through three days and nights without authorities having apparently progressed in ef- forts to dislodge the desperaoes. Ammonia Does Work.
 Today, however. three hundred pounds of ammonia was obtained from Paducah, and emergency pipe lines were laid to the building by members of the attacking forces, working behind the protection of inn provised metal shields. When this work was completed, the ammonia, held under compression in heavy metal drums, was released.
 For an hour the ammonia was al- lowed to creep into the mess hall. Then control valves were closed and another anxious hour passed while besiegers waited for the wind to sweep the fumes clear of the barri- cade.
 The "mopping up" party of seven picked men then moved across the mo- mans land about the mess hall, nerves taut and trigger fingers curved about the pistols.
 Those waiting at the firing line" heard shot from within the build ing. The word flashed out "au dead.''
 YThe siege of Eddyville" was ended.