Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04
$50 Prisoners Surrender in
Colorado Penitentiary After
Guards, Held as Hostages,
Are Murdered by Mutineers.
CATHOLIC PRIEST HELD
HERO OF BITTER FIGHT
Dramatic Climax Comes When
Desperadoes Realize Efforts to
Gain Freedom Are Futile; Bodies
of Men Tossed From Cell House
After Executions.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CANON CITY, Colo, October {.
"A definite end of the prolonged
and chaotic prison riot at the
Colorado State Penitentiary came
early today just after crisp gray
dawn broke over the mutiny..
racked institution. The beseiged
convicts, more than $50 of them,
walked from cell house No. in
orderly fashion, their hands held
high over their heads.
Thirteen lives was the toll OF
the day and night of warfare and
massacre within the walls. Five
men were wounded, at least two
seriously.
Following is the death list:
Guards-Elmer Erwin, C. w.
Rinker, r. P. Brown, John ]. Files,
Robert Abe Virgins, Charles
Shepherd and John w. McClel-
land.
Convicts-Danny Daniels, Albert
Morgaridge, James Pardue, George
(Re0 Riley, A. H. Davis, and
Charles Davis, a brother.
In addition, three other guards
and two members of the attacking
forces were wounded. The more
seriously wounded guards are
Marvin Duncan and Robert Good
win.
The exodus of the conYicts followed
Immediately on receipt of news that
the ringleaders of the rebellion had
shot themselves during the early hours
OF the morning.
Without opposition the guards
swarmed INTO the Enclosure about the
cell house and surrounded the convicts.
Leaders Commit Suicide.
One of the guards who came out
with the convictS said Danny Daniels,
Major Davis and Red Riley, three of
the known instigators of the riot, had
committed SUICIDE.
The end of the riot came after half
day and a night of furious fighting
during which guards, held hostage by
the enlbattled prisoners, were murdered
when their demands to Warden Francis
E. Crawford for safe conduct from the
prison we've refused. During the riot
dynamite, barrages of machine gun and
rife bullets and tear gas bombs failed
to vanquish the prisoners.
Guards rushing into the cell house
today found the bodies of the ring
leaders, dead apparently about two
hours. 1t was noted the rebellion had
Gained about two hours before the
prisoners marched from their strong
hold.
Fifteen feet inside of the door lay
the body of one of the guards, muir
dered last night by Daniels, the con-
lay the body Of Daniels himself, leader
of the riot and known eyecutioner of
at least three defenSeleSS guards.
The entering men came also upon
the bodies of James Pardue and Major
Davis, other ringleaders. 1t was evil
dent they had shot themselves, the
shots that killed them having been fired
at close range. The features of the
dead mutineerS were mutilated.
The convicts had made provision for
long siege. In one of the cells they
had stacked 25 huge loaves of prison
bread. Two long butcher knives that
might have been used as weapons were
found nearby. Marvin Duncan still was
alive when taken from his cell. He
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viouSly Duncan had been numbered
among the dead
Guards Murdered.
Inside the building the bodies of
Charles Shepherd and John w. McClel-
land, guards held hostage, also were
found. These two guards, it appeared.
had been murdered when the rioting
was at its height last night
Brutality murdered in retaliation for
the refusal of Warden Crawford to
grant the embattled convicts safe
getaway" the bodies of four guards
were tossed from the windows of cell
house No. 3 during the night.
The first guard shot was j. j. Files
He was thrown from the building while
still living and his body was borne
from the Enclosure by convicts told of
by the ringleaders. He died soon after
ward in a hospital.
After that, one by one, three other
guards were slain and their bodies
thrown from the building as the des-
perate convicts made good their threat
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