MUTINOUS CONVICTS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 11, 8 October 1923, Page 6

MUTINOUS CONVICTS

FOUND DEAD BEHIND BARRICADE (Rec. October 7, 5.5 p.m.) New York, October 6. The Eddyville, Kentucky, prison authorities, conferred with the leaders of tho militia in an endeavour to formulate a plan wljereby the three convict murderers might be dislodged from the bullet-scarred mess hall in which they are successfully entrenched for the third successive day. The authorities are inclined more to use dynamite against the barricaded desperadoes. Meanwhile the belief is spreading that the mutineers have escaped via the elevator or sought saletv by hiding in the kitchen boilers or tho bread ovens. A censorship meanwhile is established until to-morrow, when the prison authorities will meet Press representatives. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. October 7, 11.50 p.m.) New York, October 6. At Eddysville, Kentucky, the three convict murderers were found dead when the attackers entered the barricaded mess hall where the convicts had held out since making a dash for liberty on Wednesday morning. Following a conference .with the authorities to-day the militia inflicted a hand grenade barrage, after which ammonia was forced into the mess hall. Then soldiers battered down the door, entering the room after the gas had done its work. The three desperadoes lay dead on the floor. One obviously had been dead 24 hours, while the other two had flesh < wounds in tho heart, suggesting that they committed suicide to escape death from the am-monia.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.