Evening star., 1929-10-06

He said to r. A. Virgins, the second
guard killed:
Virgins, did you ever hang a
man.
Virgins said he had not.
well, you're next anyway
He did not call him out OF the cell
for l6 minutes after that. When he
did. he laughed and said:
well, Virgins, have you said your
prayers?'"
PRISON RIOTERS FACE MOOSE.
Colorado Officials Also Probing Theory
Friendly" Guards Smuggled In Guns.
| BY the Associated Press.
CANON CITY. Colo, October S.
Death by hanging for at least three
| convicts and extension of sentence for
several others today appeared as result
of the investigations of the mutiny at
the Colorado State Penitentiary, which
| caused the death of seven prison guards
and five prisoners.
One convict has already been placed
in solitary confinement and two others
are expected to be placed In solitary
cells under heavy guard within the
next "a hours.
/ worked IN separate NFOupS.
Prison officials believe they have de-
termined that the fire at the prison
during the riot was not started by
Danny Daniels, revolt leader, and his
gang 1t Is now believed that second
group Of rioters, who were not con-
nected with the Staying of the guards.
took part in the early rioting and set
! fire to the prison buildings.
Charles Davis. not to be confused
with A. H. Davis, who was killed by
Danny Daniels. is in solitary conf1ne-
ment and is believed to have been con-
nected with the rioters at first and
later to have split from them.
When the rioters stormed their way
through the kitchens and into the
open. dragging the unarmed guards
with them Davis is alleged to have sep
arated from the, taking up his post
nea rthe tailor shop and bakery, from
which he began sending a hail of bull
lets against the guards on the walls,
Whether the bullets found their mark is
not yet known.
Guards Were Marked.
officials have discovered there was
method in the conspirators fire against
certain guards They picked out men
they hated and marked them for death.
and this in turn brought about an
other startling theory-that some of the
guards themselves may have had part
in the affray.
/ Direct charges were brought to the
attention of the investigators that both
James Pardue and Danny Daniels were
members OF secret organization to
which several of the guards were known
to have belonged
1T is even possible" said an Official
that some of the guns may have been
smuggled in by friendly guards. Such
situation is amazing to contemplate
and difficult to believe, but there are
sort of whispers that must be run down.
1t is difficult to get the truth from
convicts'
Conspiracy Long Standing.
The conspiracy. therefore. embraced
far wider field than was at first sup
posed. 1t dates back to the time sew
eral months ago when the entire peni-
tentiary was nervous over reports that
Danny Daniels, James Pardue and other
desperate men had received "cannons
which they had hidden under the con-
crete near the bake shop.
At that time Warden Crawford had
the entire penitentiary searched and
put force of men at work digging up
the concrete in suspected spots. Nc
weapon was discovered
That more than the four convicts.
excluding Albert Morgarige, who had
no part in the conspiracy, were in
volved in the sorry business is certain.
1t has been discovered that neither
Pardue nor Daniels set fire to the build
ings or issued orders" to the other
prisoners TO set them ablaze. On the
other hand, Daniels shouted to the con-
victS to keep steady" and don't be
damned fools and try to burn us up
If we've got to kick off, don't let's 60
like rats. Let's fight he yelled.
In spite of his orders. however. he
had no control over one group of
prisoners, who proceeded to start fires.
Seven Guards Slain.
Seven guards, held as hostages by the
convict leaders. were slaughtered and
four other guards wounded before
Daniels ended the mutiny early Friday
by committing suicide.
Stories told today by convicts and
surviving guards indicated that few
other prisoners were in sympathy with
the mutiny plans, although no opposi-
tion was placed in the way of the
revolt leaders
Four revolverS, a rife and half a
dozen murderous-appeari knives were
the weapons with which the mutineers
turned on the unarmed guards and
put the penitentiary into the throes of
one OF Cne WOrSI outbreaks III american
prison history.
COnvictS Interviewed.
The Associated Press correspondent
talked to scores of convictS. and in
nearly every case was told that the
atmosphere inside the prison had been
electric for possibly two weeks before
the mutiny broke out Thursday.
There was nothing you could put
your finger on" one trusty said. but
we all sensed that something was up.
There were rumorS that guns had
been smuggled into the prison. 1t was
said that the guns had been buried
under concrete in the bakery" War
den Crawford said the rumors had
reached him before the riot and that
he had gone so far as to dig into the
concrete in an attempt to find the
gunS)
THE prisoners. 90 per cent Of them
at least. were not in favor of the riot.
the trusty continued. Warden Craw-
ford has treated us as men and Won
the respect and admiration of every
man in the prison whose intelligence is
sufficient to permit respect. We al
knew that if there was a riot all of us
regardless of our parts in the thing
would suffer through strict regulation
and discipline which would follow. Few
of us were optimistic enough to believe
| that fhn hroak would give the leaders