Imperial Valley press., 1927-11-25
F FOLSOM
ROUTINE
RESUMED
C0nyicts Surrender To
Warden After Stirring
Holiday Battle.
TO PUNISH LEADERS
Fair Trial Assured to
Sponsors of Riot Which
Cost Eleven Lives.
BY United Press Leased Wire

BY United Press Leased Wire
FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, Nov. 25.
The regular routine of Folsom
prison was resumed here today when
1900 prisoners who had defied pris-
on officials for 20 hours, surrender
ed peacefully and were returned to
their cells.
The seven ringleaders who start
ed the break which caused the
deaths of II men and injury of
% more were placed in solitary con-
finement and their names were not
divulged.
The others were returned to their
regular cells and Warden Court
Smith announced that the daily
routine would begin as if nothing
J had occurred.
One gun and half a dozen knives,
claimed by the prisoners to be all
the weapons the prisoners had, were
taken in charge by Warden Smith,
who entered the fatal cell house
alone by rear door, while hundreds
of militiamen armed with rifles and
machine guns formed Gordon
around the Dullulng.
Everything was ominously quiet
as the final surrender took place.
i The sun was peeking dimly through
a light bank of clouds to the east.
| There was no shouting of military
i orders. The atmosphere was as calm
as it had been riotous when the
break was made shortly before noon
yesterday.
Warden Smith was pale from his
/ dong vigil and was firm but reason
able in his parley with the prison
| ers.
He was seated in his cottage when
I the Besieged prisoners within the
walls first called him on the tele-
! phone. They first demanded i'm
munity.
Fair Trial Promised
"You will all be given fair trial
under the laws of California, he
replied. "You know that any
promise of immunity which / might
make would be worthless because l
| have no such power.
! - want you boys to surrender
| quietly. l am greatly grieved over
! this whole mess and l guess you
| bows are too
He gave them half hour to
make up their minds to surrender
| before the cell house would be at
tackled by machine guns and tanks.
! Shortly before the time was up the
! telephone rang second time and
| the convicts announced, their uncon-
ditional surrender.
The warden proceeded at once to
| the cell block and met the four
| guards who had been held prisoners.
All were unharmed.
He then w ent into that long,
cold, gray building which had been
"a hell house for nearly a day and
procured the weapons. The prison
ers followed him quietly out the
same rear door and marched to their
cells.
Although the names of the seven
desperadoes who were the ring lead
ers were not announced, it was be-
lieved at the prison that three of
them were "Red shannon, under
sentence of death; "Jew" Webber
/ anu IOllN DlOWns Nib was tNthe'h
of the murder of Guard Singleton by
an underground leak from the pris-
| oners.
Looks Like Battlefield
! AS the great civil battle drew to
close this hopeless home of 1.-TWO
time losers' resembled field of
| battle. The soldiers with the rifles,
machine guns, trucks and cannon;
| the ambulances and h ospital outfits;
the fire apparatus which was held
in readiness, should the prisoners
! fire the building and make of their
prison suicidal pyre; the tele'
| phone crews, with trucks and equip
ment ready to string emergency
lines, should the regular lines be
eut-all lent to the picture a mill
tary tinge.
Inside the cell house the air was
even more tense. The prisoners were
very nervous. They were silent as
the guards passed up and down the
rows, checking off each man to see
that none is hidden away, perhaps
in the closets of the hospital or tho
attic of the building.
The militia companies made lm-
mediate preparations for departure
and it was believed that within
few hours the Folsom prison episode
would be only matter Of caring for
the wounded, burying the dead and
prosecuting the guilty
Killed in Cold glona
Guards who were near The scene
of the initial outbreak reported that
Ray Singleton, assistant turnkey,
was killed in cold blood ~ the ins
furiated prisoners because he frus.
trated their plans.
Singleton prevented them from
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