The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-10-05
COLORADOLAUNCHES
EXTENSIVE PROBE Of
WHOLESALE MURDER
Seven Guards at Canon City
institution Laid Down Lives
for Law and Order
1000 ARE WITHOUT SHELTER
Rap Of Carpenters Hammers
Replaces Staccato Of Ma
chine Guns and Bombs
1000 ARE WITHOUT SHELTER

Canon City, Oct. 5.--tP,-Thc tragic
drama Of the Colorado state prison
riot gave way today to a common
place routine as the rap Of carpenters
hammers replaced the staccato of
machine guns, an eight-fold inve5ti-
cation of the bloody mutiny got un-
der way and preparations were made
for funerals Of II who lost their lives
in battle and massacre.
OF the IL dead. seven were guards
who laid down their lives to uphold
law and order The other five were
Convicts, one fatally wounded by
guard. three slain by the ringleader
Of the revolt. and the leader who end
ed his life when his chances glimmer-
ed to nothingneSS. With his death
tfs, mutiny ended as suddenly as 1t
began.
participants in the ,nutiny bent to
tasks Of rebuilding cell houses and
other buildings. plans were taking
form for investigation of the trouble.
Sanford Bates. director Of federal
prisons: J. Edgar Hoover. chief of the
bureau Of investigation of the federal
department Of justice: Gov. w. H.
Adams of Colorado; Colorado board
Of corrections: coroner's jurors; state
civil service commission; state mili-
tary authorities and Warden Francis
E. Crawford were to cooperate in a
sweeping study of the situation hop
ing to ascertain why, by whom and
where the tempest started.
C0nvicts without Shelter
Nearly 1000 prisoners were without
shelter as result of fires that swept
the buildings. Twisted steel work was
scattered about the granite buildings.
Damage Of 100000 to 100000 was
caused by fire and the subsequent at
tack by national gllardsmen and vol
unteers on the stronghold of the fcl-
Ol1s.
In the prison mess hall when one Of
the convicts, James Partluc. seized a
guards gun and shot the guard dead
Four other convicts. A. H. Davis, Mel
vim Majors. Albert Morgraidgc and
Danny Daniels. ringleader, captured
several unarmed guards In the mess
hall. Meantime they hereled other
convicts into group. Another guard
was shot from the prison wall. dead.
Continuing their march. the five des-
peradoeS captured total Of 10 guards.
These men they held as hostages for
their freedom.
A note was sent the warden saying
they would free the guards If the war
den would provide three automobiles
and let the five men go their ways.
Death Of the guards was threatened
as the price of failure to comply. The
warden refused the demand. Subsc-
Quent demands were also refused.
Toss Bodies From Cell
Bodies Of four guards were thrown
from the cell house where the five
men and their captives were barri-
caded as repeated demands met re-
fusal.
Pardue, wounded by guard in the
first skirmish at noon, q few hours
later was shot through the stomach
by Daniels to put him out Of his
misery" Early Friday morning Dam
iels shot and killed his three compan-
ions. He told one Of the three re-
naming guards to notify authorities
they were giving up. The guard
doubted. but later crept to the cell
where the men were. He struck d
match and saw he was In q tomb
Daniels had ended his own life and
lay dead among the others.
The guard. @. A. Earl, notified the
authorities, and other convicts Ia the
cell house with the five mutineers
filed out. hands high In the air. The
mutiny was over.