New Britain herald., 1923-10-08
SUICIDES END THE
 EDDYVILLE SIEGE
One Convict Killed, Pals Take 1a.. Own Lives

Western Kentucky state psnlisn tisry. Eddytills. Oct. s.-Msnts Wal teFs Lawrence drifish and hsTrl Fensna, three convict murdeFsrs shi s'ss three guards four days sge an had been hesisged since in the prisoi mess hall, acre found dead when st iaeAsrs entered the harrieadsd hal hers late Saturday,
 The guhmen were found dead el the second story when storminl paFty or seven men entered the build ing after 1t had been flooded siti high proof ammonia,
 Walters evidently had hesn killed hy bullet during the siege, Griffith nnd fsrland were dead from pisto ballet wounds through the heart. sug' sesiing they had committed suicide io espaps death from the ammonia.
 ' h,e minute hand grenade bar rssg, followed by the forcing of, am. Hogis through special constructed p,iss into the dining hall. was loosed ..t 5 o'clock
 Eddies of wind carried the ammonia cut over the walls of the prison and swept it down upon the city a mile .i4lant Enough of the gas was en- isring the felons' fortress. however. 10 sun stgntiate the belief that tho con- iets could not live through it,
 IL was announced that it would re- agigu an hour to force enough gas iaso the building 10 get in its fatal work and another hour would need 10 o,s2se after that 10 enable guards and troopers 10 enter tho building with eafet, from the fumes themselves.
 \ seething crowd. one that kept sssting larger all day. was kept al a 'iistpnee of 300 feet from the prison wBll9, Tn this crowd were the father md brother Of Griffith. one of the defiant conYicts.
 Since carly Wednesday the three sunrnen had held the barricade. not yielding in the face of machine gun and rife fire that crumbled two gap ing holes in the walls of the build ing; bombardment of tear gas bombs and a barrage of rife grenades. Three of the four guards shot down in the convicts' break for liberty are dead.
 Half hundred Kentucky National Cuards1nen have been bivouacked in the shadows of the prison walls Military censorship of press dispatches was inaugurated for a brief period Friday night but later was abandon ed upon presentation to the authori- ties of vigorous protest by members of the corps of newspaper cores pondents here to cover the siege"
 Public schools here were ordered closed until after the convicts had been subdued.
 Walters break for liberty was fore cast by Guard l.. R. Gum three weeks ago, who said at that time Walters ts getting ready for break, and when he does. he is going to take five or six guards along with him; but I am watching for him. Gum was not on duty at the time of the outbreak.
 No Funeral Services.
 Prison life was practically restored to normal today following the burial n the penitentiary cemetery here yes- terday of Walters and Ferland. Two pine boxes containing their bodies were hauled one at a time on pris- on wagon by team of mules to Vine gar Hill, and inferred without serv- ices. The body of Lawrence Griffith vas shipped to his former home at l Dresden. Tenn
 Before the convicts died they has, tlly scrawled death messa ge5. One rom Griffith read:
 Defiant (Defiance) from the dead."l One from Walters to his wife saidS Love to you, beloved"