The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-05-25
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shadow of blunt nosed As slugs in the
chambers.
open that door," ordered Thompson,
! still speaking in his deadly low mono
tone.
Fear seemed to have rendered the
guard incapable of movement. His
mouth fell open but no sound issued
from his dropping lips. When the pistol
hammer seemed to culver from the un-
steady pressure of Thompson's finger,
his eyes seemed to bulge.
open up, I tell you" ordered Thomp-
son again. He did not raise his voice
but pushed the pistol harder against
Lockwood's chest.
Outside the prison door, the two
guards did not move. Their rifles were
raised to their shoulders at the first
sign of trouble, but they dared not fire.
Lockwood stood between them and the
convict.
Two convicts came running from cell
Z. One of them, Buck Wells, who had
been implicated in the attempted rob-
berry of Filings Virginia City bank,
stepped behind the guard. The other,
Dolan, stopped at Thompson's side.
Moving with almost lightning speed,
which did not allow Hauschild and Root
time to take careful aim and fire, Wells
wound his arms around Lockwood'S
neck from behind and garroted him.
The two crashed to the floor.
l. Before Thompson or DOlan could
reach down and jerk the keys from the
guards belt, Root squeezed the trigger
Of his gun.
A snap shot went crashing through
the glass window. The ball imbedded
itself in the ceiling of the corridor. The
glass had DETECTED his aim. The re-
port of Households shot mingled with
the sound of the first shot. With a
sodden plunk that bullet, too, buried it.
self in the soft brick.
At the sound of the shots the three
convicts who had staged the mutiny
ceased their assault. Under Roots gun
! they stood helpless above the fallen
guard.
indicating the prisoners in the yard.
Hauschild turned and brought the
muzzle of his rifle to bear on the tight
ly grouped convicts. They remained
motionless in their place. Root thrust
the barrel Of his gun through the brok-
! en- window.
"Stand where you are!" he shouted.
The rifle was pointed directly at
Thompson's head.
Resting the rifle or the window
frame, he grasped it in his left hand,
his first finger resting on the trigger.
With his right he found his keys and
fumblingly searched for the key hole,
never taking his eyes from the men in
side.
They remained m%otionless. Once
Thompson made a movement, but
Roots shout of warning stopped him.
At last the bolt slid back as Root
turned the key. Still holding the rifle
through the window, he slowly turned
it as he swung open the door so it still
pointed toward the men.
Get in there and owe them," the
guard ordered his companion. II can
get this out before those fellows in the
yard al get over here, if they're going
to-"
Hauschild slipped through the half
open door and backed against the wall
at one side. Root quickly turned and
swung his rifle toward the yard. But
there was no need. The convicts gave
no sign of taking part in the delivery.
The shots had brought the warden
from his office. He ordered the convicts
in the exercise yard back to their cells
and called out the. guards whom he had
waiting within the administration
building. Thompson was disar1ned and
he and his two companions shackled.
When the prisoners were helpless the
warden entered the dollhouse. Nov
we'll have a look around" he said. 1--WE
idea We'll find something. I've known
something was going to happen for a
week. But I waited until the lid should
blow off, and they almost caught me
flatfooted."
The warden ordered all prisoners to
remain in their cells. Guards were plac-
ed at each end of the corridor. Then
the warden began his inspection tour.
In cell 10, at the end of the corridor,
he found five convicts. -Four to the cell
was the regulation number. One of them
had been assigned to cell S.
The man refused to tell how he hap
pened to be in the last cell in the cor
ridor. The five men were ordered into
the corridor. Then began a close in
spection of the cell walls.
Behind one of the hunks which stood
flush against the wall the warden found
q hole through the brick wall large