American Outlaws: Danny Daniels and America's Deadliest Prison Riot

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0:41 Speaker 2: welcome to Kind of Murdery. I'm your host, Zevan Odelberg.

0:44 Speaker 2: Thank you for choosing to spend your precious time with

0:48 Speaker 2: me today. I bring you a blow by blow, bullet

0:52 Speaker 2: by bullet, dynamite and plouring bomb by Chloring Bomb. True

0:56 Speaker 2: recounting of one of the bloodiest prison riots in American history,

1:00 Speaker 2: the October third, nineteen twenty nine uprising at the Colorado

1:04 Speaker 2: State Penitentiary at Danyon City. I found this story in

1:08 Speaker 2: the June nineteen thirty issue of True Detective Magazine, which

1:12 Speaker 2: means it was published just eight short months after the riot.

1:16 Speaker 2: It was written by Joseph McNeill of the Denver Post,

1:19 Speaker 2: who called it Crimson Knight The truth about the Canyon

1:22 Speaker 2: City jailbreak. This is not a story of the triumph

1:25 Speaker 2: of the human spirit or the surprising nobility of the incarcerated,

1:30 Speaker 2: but it is a testament to toughness and the horrors

1:33 Speaker 2: that can be committed by men who are tenacious, capable,

1:36 Speaker 2: and perhaps most importantly hopeless. You see, Colorado Governor Billy Adams,

1:42 Speaker 2: elected to three consecutive two year terms, the first in

1:45 Speaker 2: nineteen twenty seven, was ushered into office on the strength

1:49 Speaker 2: of his tough on crime platform. While running for governor,

1:53 Speaker 2: he promised that as long as he was governor, there

1:55 Speaker 2: would be no clemency. Beyond that, no parole under any

1:59 Speaker 2: circumstances Colorado's incarcerated class. This was a position that he

2:03 Speaker 2: not only stuck to once elected, but repeatedly and publicly reiterated.

2:08 Speaker 2: For resourceful and hardened criminals who felt their sentences were

2:12 Speaker 2: unjust over long, or who just wanted out, men who

2:15 Speaker 2: now could not even look forward to the possibility of parole.

2:19 Speaker 2: Adam's campaign promise of no parole and no clemency, a

2:22 Speaker 2: promise upon which he steadfastly delivered not only extinguished all

2:27 Speaker 2: hope of future freedom, but also stoked the fires of resolve,

2:31 Speaker 2: leaving Colorado's most desperate, strong willed, and capable prisoners, men who,

2:36 Speaker 2: without parole or clemency, expected to die, whether by old age, illness,

2:40 Speaker 2: or violence in prison, to conclude that escape or uprising

2:44 Speaker 2: were their only sane options. Let this be a lesson

2:47 Speaker 2: to all future chief executives, whether they be tyrannical strong

2:50 Speaker 2: men or benevolent rulers with not but the best intentions.

2:54 Speaker 2: Human beings thrive on hope. It is the singular gift

2:58 Speaker 2: unleashed by Pandora is boxed so powerful that it exists

3:03 Speaker 2: to on its own counterbalance the myriad curses and evils

3:07 Speaker 2: of this world. Extinguish hope at your own peril or

3:12 Speaker 2: without it when situations become desperate, and they always do,

3:16 Speaker 2: there is nothing to stem the bloody tide of humanity's

3:20 Speaker 2: worst inclinations. Take away all hope, and you expel the

3:24 Speaker 2: better angels from our shoulders, and leave behind only the

3:27 Speaker 2: red clad in blood, hungry devils to whisper sweet sweet

3:31 Speaker 2: violence in our ears. And with that dire warning, I

3:36 Speaker 2: bring you the action packed true crime tragedy Canyon City carnage.

3:52 Speaker 2: This is the real story of that crimson night of

3:56 Speaker 2: horror October third, nineteen twenty nine, at the Colorado State Penitentiary.

4:01 Speaker 2: We begin at the end of a gunfight after a

4:04 Speaker 2: long standoff following the robbery of a jewelry store. It's

4:08 Speaker 2: time to rock and roll, although I think that's the

4:10 Speaker 2: wrong genre, because this story is metal au flat footed SAPs.

4:16 Speaker 2: I've got a belly full, Give me a chance, and

4:19 Speaker 2: I'll come out, just to show you I'm a square guy.

4:21 Speaker 2: I'll give up my gats. The message Chief Hugh D.

4:25 Speaker 2: Harper and his Colorado Police Force had waited hours to

4:28 Speaker 2: hear at last, drifted through the shattered windows of Buckwald's

4:32 Speaker 2: Jewelry store on Colorado Avenue, just east of Cascade Avenue.

4:37 Speaker 2: It meant surrender and into this game of hounds and hair,

4:41 Speaker 2: assurance that a pitched battle between burglar and police would

4:44 Speaker 2: end without further casualties. Certainly, a desperado would be captured,

4:50 Speaker 2: a robbery thwarted, angry though it was, and still defiant.

4:54 Speaker 2: The voice drifting out of the darkened jewelry store meant

4:57 Speaker 2: all of these things to Chief Harper. And his embattled

4:59 Speaker 2: force victory. It was time. It came midnight to dawn.

5:04 Speaker 2: It had been a long, desperate fight, a costly one too,

5:06 Speaker 2: with patrol men Ben McMahon and Allen Burton wounded in

5:09 Speaker 2: facing weeks, if not months, of inactivity, a business block

5:13 Speaker 2: riddled with lead and uncounted property damage. Come on out, then,

5:17 Speaker 2: you blasted idiot, Chief Harper shouted back, but keep your

5:20 Speaker 2: hands up high and no tricks. Two German lugers sailed

5:23 Speaker 2: through the jewelry store window, or rather what was left

5:26 Speaker 2: of the windows, and fell in the street, almost at

5:28 Speaker 2: the chief's feet. The man inside meant business. He sealed

5:32 Speaker 2: his promise with his guns. The police waited, entrenched in

5:36 Speaker 2: Colorado Avenue, behind anything that appeared in the least bulletproof,

5:40 Speaker 2: and in the alley behind the jewelry store. Chief Harper

5:43 Speaker 2: and his men had waited, waited, and were disappointed. And

5:47 Speaker 2: with each disappointment they poured an almost ceaseless rain of rifle,

5:50 Speaker 2: shotgun and revolver lead into the darkened jewelry store from

5:54 Speaker 2: its one story roof, through a skylight that gave an

5:56 Speaker 2: unobstructed play. A Thompson machine gun raked the inn side

6:00 Speaker 2: of the store, but there were no results, none until now,

6:04 Speaker 2: somewhere inside. Amid the havoc wrought by incessant firing, a

6:09 Speaker 2: wreckage of shattered showcases and splintered fixtures, the wounding of

6:12 Speaker 2: two patrol men charged against him, the man who had

6:15 Speaker 2: just called out his surrenders, stood his ground, firing back

6:19 Speaker 2: when a hit seemed reasonably certain, cursing, sometimes taunting, always

6:24 Speaker 2: why don't you come in and get me a yellow

6:26 Speaker 2: bellied coppas if you think it tough enough, he shouted

6:29 Speaker 2: when the police first hemmed him in, and patrol men

6:31 Speaker 2: McMahon and Burton, displaying more courage than prudence, rushed his stronghold,

6:36 Speaker 2: only to learn there was a sting in his boasts.

6:39 Speaker 2: Shortly after midnight in late December nineteen twenty eight, this

6:42 Speaker 2: man was discovered in the jewelry store. And now, as

6:45 Speaker 2: the first rays of a new day's sun fell like

6:47 Speaker 2: the snow capped summit of Pike's Peak, lifting the massive

6:51 Speaker 2: granite pile from a field of shadows, the police began

6:54 Speaker 2: to feel reasonably certain that the long siege would soon

6:58 Speaker 2: be ended. Chlorine gas bring him out, Chief Harper predicted

7:02 Speaker 2: an hour before the message of surrender. He spoke to

7:05 Speaker 2: Deputy Chief Fred H. Springer, assisting in command of the

7:09 Speaker 2: police forces in Colorado Avenue at the time of this siege. Well,

7:14 Speaker 2: said Springer, repeating what he had told the Chief before.

7:17 Speaker 2: Denver's on the way with chlor eyed bombs. But it's

7:20 Speaker 2: a seventy five mile drive and they're coming by auto.

7:23 Speaker 2: They can't fly the Palmer Lake Divide at night. Ought

7:27 Speaker 2: to be here directly. We'll wait for the gas, So

7:29 Speaker 2: hold your fire, Chief Harper decided. Anyway, the town's got

7:33 Speaker 2: to get some sleep. Can't with all this racket. Look

7:36 Speaker 2: at the Antler Hotel's windows. A guest looking out of

7:38 Speaker 2: every one of them, say who stirred up this hornet?

7:42 Speaker 2: The Chief asked, taking advantage of the cessation of hostilities

7:45 Speaker 2: to get the facts on the introductory chapters of an

7:48 Speaker 2: episode that was to become a Department classic. Called from

7:51 Speaker 2: bed after the battle had started, Chief Harper had been

7:54 Speaker 2: too busy directing the attack to inquire about the cause. Now,

7:59 Speaker 2: he decided he'd like to know. Patrolman George Koltenberger stepped forward.

8:03 Speaker 2: I'm guilty, Chief, he said. I was rounding the corner

8:06 Speaker 2: a cascade in Colorado. When this guy's lookout fired at me,

8:10 Speaker 2: I dropped on my belly and fired back. Then from

8:13 Speaker 2: the roof of the National Cafe next door to Buckwald's,

8:15 Speaker 2: a couple of other gents opened up on me with automatics.

8:18 Speaker 2: Who's this mug inside? Anybody know? The chief interrupted. No

8:22 Speaker 2: one could answer the question, and Koltenberger continued. Finally, the

8:26 Speaker 2: guy in the street emptied his gun and ran. The

8:28 Speaker 2: birds on the roof took to cover, and I ran

8:30 Speaker 2: up to Buckwald's door, tripping over these on the sidewalk,

8:33 Speaker 2: said Koltenberger, Tripping over what? Chief Harper asked, curious, now

8:38 Speaker 2: these wires, the patrolman answered, handing the ends of two

8:42 Speaker 2: insulated copper strands to his superior. The Chief examined them,

8:46 Speaker 2: noted they stretched across Colorado Avenue and upwards over the

8:49 Speaker 2: corners of the jewelry store. He was puzzled. He touched

8:53 Speaker 2: the copper exposed ends of the strands, forming a contact.

8:56 Speaker 2: There was a spark, and in the distance of faint buzzing.

8:59 Speaker 2: The wires were a puzzle no longer to Chief Harper. Hmmm,

9:03 Speaker 2: scientific guys, he remarked. A signal from the lookout to

9:06 Speaker 2: the bird inside cracking the safe. A cracking is right,

9:11 Speaker 2: Deputy Chief Springer interposed, it might have been a fat haul.

9:15 Speaker 2: There's fifteen thousand dollars in gems in the safe, or

9:18 Speaker 2: there was when Buckwald closed up last night, fifteen thousand. Well,

9:23 Speaker 2: if the outside men didn't get them, this guy won't.

9:26 Speaker 2: When the chloride gets into his eyes and up his nose,

9:29 Speaker 2: he'll come out. If he don't, he'll choke. The distant

9:32 Speaker 2: roar of an automobile motor traveling with its muffler open

9:35 Speaker 2: ended further discussion sounds like company's coming, Deputy Chief Springer observed.

9:41 Speaker 2: Within a few minutes a machine came to a grinding

9:43 Speaker 2: stop in the street in front of the jewelry store,

9:46 Speaker 2: and detectives George Ed and O. V. Wingren saluted Chief Harper.

9:50 Speaker 2: The chlorine bombs had finally arrived from Denver. Got a

9:54 Speaker 2: leech A chief detective d ventured, Yeah, but he ain't

9:58 Speaker 2: gonna stick around much longer. Much obliged for these boys,

10:02 Speaker 2: Harper answered, thanking them for the bombs. In a matter

10:05 Speaker 2: of minutes, Chief Harper distributed the chlorine bombs, sending a

10:08 Speaker 2: consignment to Inspector Dad Bruce, in command of the machine

10:12 Speaker 2: gun detail on the roof. Tell Dad to drop a

10:15 Speaker 2: bomb through the skylight every time he hears the buzzer,

10:18 Speaker 2: was the message he sent to Bruce. Handy arrangement. This

10:21 Speaker 2: ah Springer, handy for burglars, handy for cops. Within a

10:24 Speaker 2: few minutes, Detective Bob Raith, who carried the bombs and

10:27 Speaker 2: a message to Inspector Bruce, returned to report all was ready.

10:31 Speaker 2: Chief Harper ordered his men to hold fire, but to

10:34 Speaker 2: be prepared to fight. All ready, Now for results, he shouted.

10:38 Speaker 2: He brought the wire points together in the distance. There

10:41 Speaker 2: was a faint buzzing, and a moment afterwards, a bang.

10:45 Speaker 2: Nerves a tingle, muscles, taut eyes alert. The police waited,

10:49 Speaker 2: their guns trained on the jewelry store. Slow moving clouds

10:52 Speaker 2: of gas billowed through the shattered windows. Acrid, biting fumes

10:56 Speaker 2: swept out of the store and into the avenue, but

10:58 Speaker 2: there was no sign of a man coming out. The

11:01 Speaker 2: signal buzzed a second time, and then a third, and

11:04 Speaker 2: down the skylight. Inspector Bruce dropped two more bombs. Again,

11:08 Speaker 2: the police waited. The gas clouds rolled lazily through the windows,

11:12 Speaker 2: denser more pungent, a short weight, and the cry of surrender.

11:16 Speaker 2: Then two German lugers. Sailed through the air with his

11:20 Speaker 2: hands up, his eyes streaming tears, coughing convulsively as the

11:23 Speaker 2: gas fumes bit into tender throat tissues and penetrated equally

11:27 Speaker 2: tender nostrils. The man staggered into the street, fighting for breath.

11:31 Speaker 2: He approached Chief Harper. The name's Daniels, he managed to

11:35 Speaker 2: explain between fits of coughing, Danny, they call me My

11:38 Speaker 2: home's Oklahoma City. I'm out on seven five hundred dollars

11:41 Speaker 2: bond for assault at Bartlesville, five thousand dollars federal bond

11:45 Speaker 2: for auto theft a Tulsa, one thousand dollars assault bond

11:48 Speaker 2: at Nowada. Used to be a bookkeeper. Never killed a

11:51 Speaker 2: man in my life. On my way to Wyoming to rest.

11:54 Speaker 2: Maybe Danny was telling the truth and he'd never killed

11:57 Speaker 2: a man. But this is carnage, a Canon city, and

12:01 Speaker 2: that streak was about to come to an end. Oh no,

12:06 Speaker 2: said the chief, Not Wyoming, Daniels, Canyon City. That's where

12:11 Speaker 2: we send guys like you for vacations. Long ones too.

12:15 Speaker 2: Who are your pals? Pals Daniels replied, acting like he

12:19 Speaker 2: had no idea what the chief was talking about. Let's see,

12:22 Speaker 2: said the chief call one of them Red Taylor, and

12:25 Speaker 2: the other one Whitey Williams. I guess that's good enough,

12:29 Speaker 2: the man replied, indicating he would give no information about

12:32 Speaker 2: the men who had escaped. They got away, I got caught.

12:35 Speaker 2: That's my tough luck. Where'd you learn this racket? Chief

12:39 Speaker 2: Harper questioned, Oklahoma mostly trailed around with the cimes gang

12:43 Speaker 2: sum the man boasted, got jobbed and did a stretch.

12:47 Speaker 2: Been sore ever since he said this. Angrily got a

12:50 Speaker 2: wife and a kid in Oklahoma. Listen, Chief, they won't

12:53 Speaker 2: know anything about this, will they. Daniels stopped talking as

12:56 Speaker 2: Inspector Bruce approached. When the gas cleared from the jewelry

12:59 Speaker 2: store or, Inspector Bruce and his detail went inside to

13:02 Speaker 2: learn some things the police did not know. Coming back out,

13:06 Speaker 2: stumbling over debris, he stated, neat job, Chief. They got

13:10 Speaker 2: in through the National Cafe, dug a tunnel through the

13:12 Speaker 2: wall to get to Buckwald's safe. There's a slab of

13:15 Speaker 2: steel out of the safe, but the torchman didn't have

13:18 Speaker 2: time to complete the job. The jewels must be safe inside. Yeah,

13:23 Speaker 2: it's a dud for me, Daniels confirmed, ignoring the remark.

13:26 Speaker 2: Inspector Bruce continued, this mug worked inside a tent and

13:30 Speaker 2: in that way concealed the glow from the acettlene torch.

13:34 Speaker 2: There's two tanks of ascettling gas in the tent, twenty

13:37 Speaker 2: four rounds for an automatic, twenty five shells for a

13:40 Speaker 2: twenty gage shotgun, and an extra clip for a luger.

13:43 Speaker 2: No guns left everything just as we found it, and

13:46 Speaker 2: the boys are looking around for fingerprints, Bruce finished, secretly

13:49 Speaker 2: admiring Daniel's thoroughness. Hey, everybody, welcome back to kind of Murdery.

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15:57 Speaker 2: City Carnage. I'm going to rewind the story about twenty

16:00 Speaker 2: seconds to let you settle back into it. There's two

16:08 Speaker 2: tanks of a settling gas in the tent, twenty four

16:11 Speaker 2: rounds for an automatic, twenty five shells for a twenty

16:14 Speaker 2: gage shotgun, and an extra clip for a luger. No

16:17 Speaker 2: guns left everything just as we found it, and the

16:20 Speaker 2: boys are looking around for fingerprints. Bruce finished, secretly admiring

16:24 Speaker 2: Daniel's thoroughness. The first experience with Danny Daniels showed the

16:28 Speaker 2: kind of metal he was made of. Glorious sunlight of

16:31 Speaker 2: an Indian summer day flooded the Pike's Peak region as

16:34 Speaker 2: Chief Harper snapped a pair of handcuffs around Danny Daniel's

16:37 Speaker 2: wrists and ordered him taken under guard to the El

16:40 Speaker 2: Paso County Jail. The excitement over, Sleepy eyed guests of

16:43 Speaker 2: the Antler Hotel crawled back into bed to snatch a

16:46 Speaker 2: few hours of rest before golf engagements at the Broadmoor

16:49 Speaker 2: or motor trips up the peak compelled them to rise again. Haggard, ragged, nerved,

16:54 Speaker 2: police officers, glad the siege was ended, dragged themselves home

16:58 Speaker 2: and to bed until duty again forced them to their posts.

17:01 Speaker 2: In the meantime, the pals of Danny Daniels were racing

17:04 Speaker 2: southward towards Pueblo in a stolen automobile, leaving their pal

17:08 Speaker 2: behind to fight for freedom the best he could. October

17:12 Speaker 2: was drawing to a close when Daniels, desperate in the

17:15 Speaker 2: realization that within a month he would face a jury

17:17 Speaker 2: on a charge of burglary, again, struck at the law.

17:21 Speaker 2: Jailer Frank Bot was his target, delivering the noon meals

17:25 Speaker 2: to prisoners in the El Paso County Jail. Bought passed

17:28 Speaker 2: within arm's reach of Daniel's cell, the outlaw thrust an

17:32 Speaker 2: arm through the bars of his cage and in a

17:34 Speaker 2: downward sweep, slashed the jailer's throat with a razor missed

17:38 Speaker 2: the juggular but opened an ugly gash in the cell

17:41 Speaker 2: keeper's neck. Disarmed, he was thrown into a dungeon, and

17:44 Speaker 2: thereafter his keepers were more vigilant. And then in November

17:49 Speaker 2: a trial. The jury heard the story of the siege

17:52 Speaker 2: at Buckwald's jewelry store and the forceful injury of the

17:55 Speaker 2: National Cafe. The verdict was guilty on two counts. On

18:00 Speaker 2: the morning of November thirtieth, nineteen twenty eight, Daniels stood

18:04 Speaker 2: before the bar in District Judge Wilbur M Alter's court

18:07 Speaker 2: room for sentence. Have you anything to say, the court asked,

18:11 Speaker 2: putting the usual question forward, nothing, Daniels growled. Judge Alter

18:16 Speaker 2: began the pronouncement of sentence. It is the sentence of

18:19 Speaker 2: this court that you be confined in the penitentiary at

18:23 Speaker 2: Canyon City, at hard Labor for a term of twelve

18:26 Speaker 2: to fourteen years on the first count, and that Daniels

18:30 Speaker 2: breathed audibly, and the court paused. With his hand, the

18:34 Speaker 2: prisoner wiped beads of perspiration from his forehead, shifted his

18:38 Speaker 2: weight from one leg to the other, and stood ready

18:40 Speaker 2: to hear the remainder of the court's pronouncement. Judge Alter continued,

18:44 Speaker 2: and that you be confined in the penitentiary, not at

18:48 Speaker 2: hard labor, for twelve to fourteen years. On the second count,

18:51 Speaker 2: the sentences to run consecutively. Mister Sheriff take charge of

18:55 Speaker 2: the prisoner. Whew, Daniels exclaimed, exhaling through clench, and then

19:01 Speaker 2: twenty eight years. Huh. The works across the mountains by

19:05 Speaker 2: a road that winds down into the Green Valleys and

19:08 Speaker 2: up pine studded rocky slopes to the summit of the

19:11 Speaker 2: Secondary Range of the Rockies. The distance from Colorado Springs

19:16 Speaker 2: to the Canyon City Penitentiary is fifty two miles. Danny

19:20 Speaker 2: Daniels made that trip on the afternoon of November thirtieth,

19:23 Speaker 2: nineteen twenty eight, with the sentence so recently pronounced ringing

19:27 Speaker 2: in his ears, twenty eight years in the penitentiary meant

19:31 Speaker 2: a lifetime. At his age, he was thirty eight, handcuffed,

19:35 Speaker 2: an organ boot locked around his right leg at the ankle.

19:38 Speaker 2: He made the trip in silence, seated between two armed guards.

19:42 Speaker 2: Chief Harper sat in the front seat of the automobile

19:44 Speaker 2: beside the driver. Canyon City sits on a high plateau

19:49 Speaker 2: to the north and west. The town is hemmed in

19:52 Speaker 2: by the eminence of the Rockies, the last encountered before

19:55 Speaker 2: the approach to the heights of the Continental Divide. The

19:58 Speaker 2: prison where Colorado incarcerates her felons is built on the

20:02 Speaker 2: slope of the North Hills. Its back or north wall,

20:05 Speaker 2: abuts them. Red sandstone ramparts thirty feet high and four

20:09 Speaker 2: feet thick enclose the prison grounds and buildings in an

20:12 Speaker 2: irregular rectangle. Three cell houses, known as Tiers one, two,

20:18 Speaker 2: and three are grouped close together nearer the north and

20:21 Speaker 2: west walls. The west wall overlooks the warden's residence and

20:25 Speaker 2: near its juncture with the north rampart, there is a

20:28 Speaker 2: steel barred gate through which railcars are admitted to the

20:32 Speaker 2: prison grounds with supplies and coal. Cell House number three

20:36 Speaker 2: is a little to the south and east of the gate,

20:39 Speaker 2: possibly fifty yards. Stone turrets, each a part of the

20:43 Speaker 2: stone walls, overlook the prison grounds and buildings from all sides.

20:47 Speaker 2: They are the lookout stations, occupied day and night by

20:51 Speaker 2: guards who patrol the walls at regular intervals, rifles resting

20:55 Speaker 2: in the crook of their arms. On a clear day,

20:57 Speaker 2: A panoramic view of Colorado's pentitate injury is visible from

21:01 Speaker 2: a promontory nineteen miles to the eastward. The November day

21:05 Speaker 2: that Danny Daniels came over the mountains from Colorado Springs

21:08 Speaker 2: was just such a day. As the automobile that carried

21:12 Speaker 2: him topped the last hill before the plateau. Daniels glimpsed

21:16 Speaker 2: the prison, backed up against the massive granite hillside. He winced,

21:20 Speaker 2: not for long. He muttered between clenched teeth, leaving his

21:24 Speaker 2: guards to speculate on what he meant. Half an hour later,

21:27 Speaker 2: he passed through the steel gates of the prison administration building,

21:31 Speaker 2: which faces the south with its back to the prison

21:33 Speaker 2: yard and cell houses. He was mugged, printed and classified,

21:37 Speaker 2: and turned over to a guard captain to be assigned

21:39 Speaker 2: to a cell house. Danny Daniels became convict number one

21:43 Speaker 2: four to two seven seven. As he disappeared into the

21:47 Speaker 2: prison yard, Chief Harper, who had watched his transformation from

21:50 Speaker 2: a man under sentence to a full fledged convict, turned

21:53 Speaker 2: to Warden Francis Eugene Crawford and said, Jeane, there goes

21:57 Speaker 2: a tough egg. You'll have to watch him. Daniels carried

22:01 Speaker 2: into the canyon city penitentiary, the same hatred of authority

22:04 Speaker 2: he had harbored on the outside. In the prison, there

22:08 Speaker 2: were many men like him, and he was not long

22:10 Speaker 2: in making the acquaintance of these convicts. James Pardue alias

22:14 Speaker 2: Walter J. Hollob was one of them. Pardu was the

22:16 Speaker 2: type that crime experts call a habitual criminal. When he

22:20 Speaker 2: met Daniels, he was completing the fourth year of a

22:23 Speaker 2: ten year to life sentence and posed for highway robbery

22:26 Speaker 2: in the West Side Criminal Court at Denver, and boasted

22:29 Speaker 2: a long and varied career in crime. As a boy,

22:32 Speaker 2: Pardu was an inmate at the Missouri Reform School in Boonville.

22:36 Speaker 2: He was committed for shoplifting, liberated on parole. He was

22:40 Speaker 2: back again in the Boonville School in nineteen nineteen under

22:43 Speaker 2: a five year sentence. This time it was burglary. He

22:47 Speaker 2: escaped in two months and was at liberty until nineteen

22:49 Speaker 2: twenty two. That year, he was back again at Boonville

22:52 Speaker 2: under sentence of five years in criminal accomplishment. He had progressed.

22:57 Speaker 2: This time the charge was armed robbery. Again he escaped,

23:00 Speaker 2: and again he was arrested, tried, and convicted. Now too

23:04 Speaker 2: old for Boonville. He was sent to the Missouri State Prison,

23:07 Speaker 2: which received him for armed robbery in nineteen twenty three.

23:11 Speaker 2: In nineteen twenty four, he again broke out, and in

23:13 Speaker 2: course of the search for a place to hide, he

23:16 Speaker 2: reached Colorado. Within a few months, the Denver police had

23:19 Speaker 2: him in custody for aggravated robbery a drug store stick up,

23:23 Speaker 2: and in time Pardu reached Canyon City. In a fit

23:26 Speaker 2: of anger, Pardu once told Deputy Warden William Green, I

23:30 Speaker 2: can't and I won't serve the sentence they gave me

23:33 Speaker 2: a Denver and that was the way Daniels felt about

23:36 Speaker 2: his sentence. So it was that Daniels and Pardu had

23:39 Speaker 2: much in common. It was natural that they should become

23:42 Speaker 2: prison pals. That their thoughts should turn spontaneously to liberty

23:46 Speaker 2: and to the day when it would come legally or otherwise,

23:49 Speaker 2: made no difference to them as they contemplated the future.

23:52 Speaker 2: Inaugural day in March nineteen twenty nine held the attention

23:55 Speaker 2: of the people of Colorado. Governor William H. Adams was

23:59 Speaker 2: to begin his set term. In a message to the

24:01 Speaker 2: people of the state, he promised, as he had promised

24:04 Speaker 2: two years before, that there would be no pardons, no

24:08 Speaker 2: paroles for convicts. Through unknown channels, the news penetrated the

24:13 Speaker 2: penitentiary and spread among the convicts. With hope of executive

24:17 Speaker 2: clemency gone for at least two years, the natural result

24:20 Speaker 2: of the news was unrest among the convicts. Daniels and Pardu,

24:24 Speaker 2: now more restless and more dissatisfied, did much to ferment it.

24:28 Speaker 2: By avenues to this day, undiscovered arms were smuggled into

24:31 Speaker 2: the prison. Luckily they were found and confiscated, and convicts

24:35 Speaker 2: suspected of possessing them were thrown into the prison coolers

24:39 Speaker 2: on a diet of bread and water. By Midsummer, discipline

24:42 Speaker 2: became harder to enforce and unrest was more pronounced. It

24:46 Speaker 2: was now late July, eight months since Daniels and Pardu,

24:49 Speaker 2: moved by mutual sympathy, had formed an alliance. They were

24:53 Speaker 2: assigned with other convicts to unload steam coal brought into

24:56 Speaker 2: the penitentiary through the west gate. At the same task

25:00 Speaker 2: were Alfred H. Davis thirty eight years old, and Melvin

25:03 Speaker 2: Read Majors alias Riley, thirty years old. As prison records go,

25:08 Speaker 2: Davis and Majors were rated bad ones by virtue of

25:11 Speaker 2: two attempts to break out of Canyon City. Davis had

25:14 Speaker 2: attained some local fame among the convicts and majors, with

25:18 Speaker 2: a record for a successful break from a California prison

25:21 Speaker 2: was rated a quote crafty guy with guts. Daniels and

25:25 Speaker 2: Pardu recognized men of particular qualifications in the pair who

25:29 Speaker 2: would prove useful members of their confederacy. They took them in.

25:33 Speaker 2: Like Pardus, Major's record was spotty. Good behavior which paroled him,

25:38 Speaker 2: was short lived, and Los Angeles sent him back to Iona.

25:41 Speaker 2: This time it was robbery. One day he was missing,

25:44 Speaker 2: and he was at liberty until sent to San Quentin.

25:47 Speaker 2: Again it was robbery. Next he was an inmate of

25:50 Speaker 2: fulsome and once more good behavior unlatched penitentiary doors. He

25:55 Speaker 2: was a clever man, but an incorrigible such was his

25:59 Speaker 2: record when he saw greener and less hazardous fields in Colorado.

26:02 Speaker 2: About the time of his arrival, there was a series

26:05 Speaker 2: of hold ups. Denver police were never able to prove

26:08 Speaker 2: these against Majors, but they ceased after he fled the

26:11 Speaker 2: city following the shooting of patrolman James Cass, who was

26:14 Speaker 2: wounded as he started investigation of a quartet of men

26:18 Speaker 2: suspected of a plan to rob the bank. The gang

26:21 Speaker 2: was seated in an automobile parked in front of the

26:23 Speaker 2: bank at the time. This job was never fastened definitely

26:27 Speaker 2: on Majors, but he was sentenced at Colorado Springs for

26:30 Speaker 2: aggravated robbery committed in that city. Denying the crime, he

26:34 Speaker 2: attempted to explain possession of a gun with this declaration,

26:38 Speaker 2: while I am an inexperienced young man from the East,

26:40 Speaker 2: and I expected to find Indians in Colorado, so I

26:44 Speaker 2: brought my gun along. The explanation gave courtroom spectators a laugh,

26:48 Speaker 2: and the court gave Majors twenty to thirty years a

26:52 Speaker 2: waiter when he followed legitimate employment. Davis had a record

26:56 Speaker 2: in New Mexico before he migrated to Colorado. In Denver,

27:00 Speaker 2: he was sentenced to a twenty to thirty year term

27:02 Speaker 2: for drug store hold up. He was suspected of other crimes,

27:05 Speaker 2: but police could never prove them, and Detective Captain Bert

27:09 Speaker 2: Clark was satisfied to let matters drop when Davis started

27:13 Speaker 2: for Canyon City. This then was the personnel of the

27:16 Speaker 2: quartet of single purposed men who labored through July and

27:19 Speaker 2: October unloading steam coal from railroad cars rolled into the

27:23 Speaker 2: penitentiary gate through the steel barred portals of the west Gate.

27:28 Speaker 2: As time passed, the attitude of Governor Adams with respect

27:32 Speaker 2: to convicts remained unchanged. No pardons and no paroles continued

27:38 Speaker 2: to be the administration's policy. Restless discontent agitated from sources

27:42 Speaker 2: unknown to prison officials, permeated every cell block. There were

27:47 Speaker 2: reports of guns smuggled into the prison by trustees who

27:50 Speaker 2: hid them under coal piled high in the yard. The

27:52 Speaker 2: coal was moved, there were no guns. About this time.

27:56 Speaker 2: Knives were missing mysteriously from the kitchen. Search was made

27:59 Speaker 2: for themself. The cell blocks returned topsy turvy. Every nook

28:02 Speaker 2: and cranny probed, but there were no knives and no

28:05 Speaker 2: weapons of any kind. Suddenly, a calm, a strange calm,

28:10 Speaker 2: settled over the prison. There was less of discontent, and

28:13 Speaker 2: improved discipline was noticeable. Warden Crawford breathed easier. I don't know, Warden,

28:19 Speaker 2: sounds like the calm before the storm. To me, if

28:21 Speaker 2: I was him, I would be more nervous than ever.

28:24 Speaker 2: Guards and keepers who had been nervous and jumpy became

28:27 Speaker 2: calm and composed there was not a man among them

28:30 Speaker 2: who did not feel that the crisis had passed. And

28:32 Speaker 2: then October third, nineteen twenty nine, dawned clear and calm.

28:38 Speaker 2: Summer lingered in the hills around Canyon City. Although autumn

28:41 Speaker 2: was well advanced, colourings particular to the fall of the

28:44 Speaker 2: year had only just begun to tinge the foliage on

28:47 Speaker 2: the mountain slopes. There was that about the weather which

28:50 Speaker 2: lures won to the open road, and Warden Crawford, with

28:54 Speaker 2: business demanding attention, drove over the hills to Colorado Springs.

28:58 Speaker 2: Within the prison, Daniels and Pardu and Davison, Majors labored

29:03 Speaker 2: with their fellow prisoners unloading coal. Noon was approaching when

29:08 Speaker 2: Elmer g Irwin, a guard, climbed a steel rung ladder

29:11 Speaker 2: to the crow's nest, overlooking the convict mess hall, to

29:14 Speaker 2: watch the convicts as they gulped their prison fare. Was

29:17 Speaker 2: one of his daily duties. Near at hand in the

29:20 Speaker 2: crow's nest was a rifle loaded and ready for any emergency.

29:24 Speaker 2: This particular day, Irwin followed his customary routine. After climbing

29:28 Speaker 2: the ladder with the rifle stock under his arm, he

29:31 Speaker 2: closed and locked the door from a compartment. He produced

29:34 Speaker 2: a rifle barrel, which he fitted to the stock. He

29:37 Speaker 2: broke the weapon, saw it was loaded, and as he finished,

29:40 Speaker 2: a blast from the whistle in the prison boiler house

29:42 Speaker 2: announced the noon hour. Convicts laid down their tools, formed lines,

29:47 Speaker 2: and began a march for the mess hall. From a

29:49 Speaker 2: turret overlooking the grounds and the mess hall, Myron H. Goodwin,

29:53 Speaker 2: another guard, watched the lines advance and in usual order

29:56 Speaker 2: file into the mess hall. Twelve hundred convicts sat down

30:00 Speaker 2: to lunch. Apparently all was well. As they ate, Irwin

30:04 Speaker 2: watched from the crow's nest. Other guards passed from table

30:07 Speaker 2: to table to check every man in his accustomed place.

30:10 Speaker 2: Two were missing, Daniels and Pardu. The captain of the

30:15 Speaker 2: guards was advised and a hurried search was made in

30:17 Speaker 2: their cell tiars. They were not there. At twelve thirty,

30:21 Speaker 2: with the search for Daniels and Pardue still in progress,

30:24 Speaker 2: the convicts rose from their meal, formed another line, and

30:27 Speaker 2: marched out. Unaware that Daniels and Pardu were missing. Guard

30:31 Speaker 2: Irwin broke his rifle as the last of the convicts

30:34 Speaker 2: disappeared through the mess hall door. By the way, when

30:37 Speaker 2: we say broke the rifle. He doesn't mean broke it,

30:40 Speaker 2: as in it doesn't work anymore. He means broke it

30:43 Speaker 2: in half by opening the barrel. When someone refers to

30:46 Speaker 2: breaking a shotgun, they're talking about separating the stock and

30:50 Speaker 2: the barrel, usually on a hinge, which allows you to

30:52 Speaker 2: look down the barrel and into the chamber to see

30:55 Speaker 2: if the gun is loaded or not, or to load

30:57 Speaker 2: the gun or unload it. In this particular case, it

31:01 Speaker 2: sounds like Irwin breaks the barrel and actually completely physically

31:06 Speaker 2: separates the barrel of the gun from the stock of

31:08 Speaker 2: the gun, which I imagine is a safety measure. Anyway,

31:12 Speaker 2: back to the story. Unaware that Daniels and Pardy were missing,

31:15 Speaker 2: Irwin broke his rifle. As the last of the convicts

31:17 Speaker 2: disappeared through the mess hall. He put the barrel of

31:20 Speaker 2: the weapon back into its compartment, tucked the stock under

31:23 Speaker 2: his arm, shut and locked the crow's nest door, and

31:26 Speaker 2: started down the ladder. A shuffling of feet beneath the

31:30 Speaker 2: ladder warned him of the presence of others in the room.

31:33 Speaker 2: A gruff voice directly beneath spoke to him, shorty, your

31:38 Speaker 2: time has come. We return now to guard Irwin. Overseeing

31:48 Speaker 2: the prison mess hall. A gruff voice directly beneath spoke

31:52 Speaker 2: to him, shorty, your time has come. There was a shot.

31:57 Speaker 2: It echoed faintly in the turret, where Goodwin focused watchful

32:00 Speaker 2: eyes on the retreating convict line. Aroused by the sound,

32:04 Speaker 2: the guard peered down into the yard, trying to account

32:07 Speaker 2: for it. As his eyes scanned the yard, his hand

32:09 Speaker 2: held a rifle. He discerned some evidence of unrest in

32:12 Speaker 2: the convict line, and as he watched, two men darted

32:15 Speaker 2: for the mess hall. Goodwin raised his rifle, drew sight

32:19 Speaker 2: on the foremost of the running figures, and then out

32:21 Speaker 2: of the corner of his eye, Goodwin discerned another unusual

32:24 Speaker 2: movement in the prison yard below him, on the threshold

32:27 Speaker 2: of the mess hall, he glimpsed another figure with rifle leveled.

32:31 Speaker 2: Instantly Goodwin realized he was the target on which the

32:34 Speaker 2: weapon was trained. He swept his own rifle to the

32:37 Speaker 2: side until the sight drew a bead on the figure

32:39 Speaker 2: in the mess hall doorway. He fired. Simultaneously, another rifle roared.

32:44 Speaker 2: Goodwin toppled backward into the penthouse atop the prison wall,

32:47 Speaker 2: fatally wounded the figure in the doorway, plunged forward into

32:50 Speaker 2: the yard and lay still. A rifle lay beside it.

32:53 Speaker 2: As the shots sounded, twelve hundred convicts broke rank and

32:57 Speaker 2: raced for their cell blocks. The Canyon City Prison was

33:00 Speaker 2: a reality. Within a few minutes, the prison yard was

33:03 Speaker 2: a bedlam. The siren in the boiler house screamed in alarm.

33:07 Speaker 2: Convicts fresh from forays on the prison bakery, the kitchen,

33:10 Speaker 2: and their own cell houses dodged from shelter to shelter

33:13 Speaker 2: as they scurried towards Cell House number three. Guards running

33:17 Speaker 2: towards the mess hall to investigate the shots shouted orders.

33:20 Speaker 2: These were ignored. Lacking arms to enforce their commands. The

33:23 Speaker 2: guards were helpless. Other guards in the turrets of the

33:26 Speaker 2: West and North halls, who had seen Goodwin fall backwards

33:29 Speaker 2: into his penthouse a moment after his rifle blazed, telephoned

33:32 Speaker 2: the news to the administration building, and just about this time,

33:35 Speaker 2: eight men dressed in the regulation uniforms of the prison

33:38 Speaker 2: guards hurried across the penitentiary yard towards Cell House three.

33:42 Speaker 2: They were bearing what appeared to be two bodies, dead

33:45 Speaker 2: or wounded men. No one knew which. A hurried survey

33:48 Speaker 2: of the situation told Deputy Warden Green it was serious.

33:52 Speaker 2: Such meager details as he possessed, he hastened to telephone

33:55 Speaker 2: to Warden Crawford, who was reached in Chief Harper's office

33:58 Speaker 2: at Colorado Springs. We've got some trouble here, Warden, he

34:01 Speaker 2: told his superior over the long distance telephone. He tried

34:05 Speaker 2: to appear calm. Goodwin's been shot and he's dying. There's

34:08 Speaker 2: been three shots fired, two inside somewhere around the mess hall,

34:11 Speaker 2: and a third one that Goodwin fired, He continued, apparently

34:14 Speaker 2: ignoring some pointed question asked by his chief, who was

34:17 Speaker 2: listening eagerly. Yeah, we think there's two wounded men inside,

34:21 Speaker 2: and a bunch of guards are captives. No, we don't

34:23 Speaker 2: know if the wounded or guards are cons. The cons

34:26 Speaker 2: seemed to be armed, and they carried the dead or

34:28 Speaker 2: wounded men into cell House three. Did you say who

34:31 Speaker 2: carried them? Well, we don't know. Men in guard uniforms.

34:35 Speaker 2: At this point, a guard rushed into the administration building

34:38 Speaker 2: where the Deputy Warren had his chief on the telephone,

34:40 Speaker 2: and interrupted the conversation. Breathless, he whispered a message in

34:44 Speaker 2: Green's ear, A troubled expression overspread Green's face, and he

34:47 Speaker 2: placed his lips against the mouthpiece and shouted this message.

34:50 Speaker 2: The chapel and the mess hall are burning. Hell's broke loose.

34:54 Speaker 2: The convicts are running like hell for cell House three.

34:56 Speaker 2: Then he hung up the receiver, and Warden Crawford, turning

34:59 Speaker 2: to Chief Harper, made this speculation, Chief, I wonder if

35:02 Speaker 2: you're right about Daniels. Someone's turned the pen into a hellhole.

35:06 Speaker 2: He's a tough nut. Gene was all Chief Harper said.

35:09 Speaker 2: Racing back to Canyon City on that October afternoon over

35:12 Speaker 2: a mountain road that is more like a trail of

35:15 Speaker 2: a serpent than a highway for motor travel, Warden Crawford

35:18 Speaker 2: established a record for speed and reckless daring that will

35:21 Speaker 2: stand until a like emergency compels another to sacrifice safety

35:25 Speaker 2: for haste. Less than two hours after he received his

35:28 Speaker 2: deputy's message, Warden Crawford's automobile topped the rise nineteen miles

35:32 Speaker 2: east of the penitentiary from which Danny Daniels first glimpsed

35:36 Speaker 2: the prison almost a year before. He looked off across

35:39 Speaker 2: the expanse of mountain meadow and in the distance above

35:41 Speaker 2: the tops of a forest of pine. In the middle

35:44 Speaker 2: of the background, he saw great clouds of black smoke

35:47 Speaker 2: obliterating the contour of the hills. He knew the penitentiary

35:51 Speaker 2: was still burning, and from that he judged the riot

35:55 Speaker 2: to be serious. After his conversation with his superior deputy,

35:58 Speaker 2: Warden Green, made another hurried survey of the situation in

36:01 Speaker 2: the prison, and then proceeded to carry out the one

36:04 Speaker 2: order he remembered receiving from Warden Crawford. He called Governor Adams,

36:09 Speaker 2: the chief executive, received the news calmly, but a few

36:13 Speaker 2: minutes after he hung up the telephone, the executive offices

36:16 Speaker 2: in the capitol at Denver were swarming with subordinate state officers.

36:20 Speaker 2: Colonel Paul P. Neulan of the Colorado National Guard was

36:24 Speaker 2: ordered to get militia men under arms to combat the

36:27 Speaker 2: convict revolt. He followed instructions by ordering out forty men

36:31 Speaker 2: of a howitzer company at Canyon City. Within an hour,

36:34 Speaker 2: they had encompassed the prison walls, and shortly afterwards were

36:37 Speaker 2: joined by hundreds of townfolk men who responded to the

36:40 Speaker 2: sirens call for help and armed themselves at the prison.

36:43 Speaker 2: Arsenal battery b at Pueblo was also ordered to Canyon City,

36:47 Speaker 2: and shortly afterwards the forty men of the battery and

36:50 Speaker 2: trained from their armory in trucks for a forty two

36:52 Speaker 2: mile run to the prison up the valley of the Arkansas.

36:56 Speaker 2: They took with them a large field piece and two

36:58 Speaker 2: machine guns. As the guardsmen from Pueblo swung into the

37:02 Speaker 2: valley road leading to Canyon City, six pieces of fire

37:05 Speaker 2: apparatus swept by them in a cloud of dust, and

37:08 Speaker 2: the guardsman's commanding officer, Captain Aubrey Keef, roared across the

37:12 Speaker 2: mountains in an airplane in the direction of the penitentiary town. Meanwhile,

37:17 Speaker 2: Governor Adams had dispatched Chief Lewis and Scherf of the

37:20 Speaker 2: State Police and Lieutenant Roy Best to the penitentiary. The

37:24 Speaker 2: governor's private secretary, Judge B. T. Poxon, accompanied them as

37:28 Speaker 2: special representative of the Chief Executive. When Warden Crawford reached

37:33 Speaker 2: Canyon City after his record run from Colorado Springs, he

37:36 Speaker 2: found the streets crowded. Armed men were everywhere. Military lines

37:40 Speaker 2: had been established, and uniformed guardsmen patrolled them, holding back

37:44 Speaker 2: the curious. When still some blocks from the prison grounds,

37:47 Speaker 2: Warden Crawford heard the roar of flames that were consuming

37:50 Speaker 2: the chapel in the mess hall. When he reached the prison,

37:53 Speaker 2: he sought out Assistant Warden Green for a more detailed

37:56 Speaker 2: story of what had taken place. All we know is

37:59 Speaker 2: what we've seen and heard. Green informed him, and that

38:02 Speaker 2: isn't very much. No one's come out to tell us

38:04 Speaker 2: what's going on inside. We got Goodwin out of the tower,

38:08 Speaker 2: but we had to drill through the steel bars of

38:10 Speaker 2: that wicket in the south wall to get him. We

38:13 Speaker 2: carried him down a narrow passageway leading from the tower

38:15 Speaker 2: to the street. He's hit bad. Goodwin says he'd drilled

38:19 Speaker 2: a convict before he was shot. They fired together. Goodwin

38:22 Speaker 2: in the Khan. We don't know who he is. How

38:24 Speaker 2: about the guards inside, The anxious warden asked, Oh, yes,

38:28 Speaker 2: I guess they're prisoners. Fifteen of them at least. They

38:30 Speaker 2: haven't come out, and we haven't seen any of them,

38:33 Speaker 2: none except Joe Shillo. Someone saw Shillo standing at a

38:36 Speaker 2: window and sell House three. We're pretty sure there's another

38:39 Speaker 2: wounded man inside besides the Khan. And we know they've

38:42 Speaker 2: got one rifle, and we think they've got several gats,

38:45 Speaker 2: how many? We don't know. The man Goodwind dropped in

38:47 Speaker 2: front of the mess hall had a rifle. That's either

38:50 Speaker 2: the rifle from the crow's nest or one that's been

38:52 Speaker 2: smuggled in. The warden said, and if it's the crow's

38:55 Speaker 2: nest rifle, it means Erwin's been shot. Well, maybe, Green agreed,

38:59 Speaker 2: reluctant to admit what he felt must be a fact.

39:02 Speaker 2: We saw the two men lugged into cell House three.

39:05 Speaker 2: That was just before the fire started. Guards are convicts,

39:08 Speaker 2: dressed in uniforms carried them in. What about the revolt leaders?

39:11 Speaker 2: Who are they? Crawford asked. Green shrugged his shoulders and

39:14 Speaker 2: said he didn't know, adding Daniels and Pardue would be

39:17 Speaker 2: in a mess like this. Warden Crawford nodded affirmatively and

39:21 Speaker 2: started to ask another question. A shout from a corridor

39:24 Speaker 2: of the administration building just outside his office stopped him.

39:27 Speaker 2: Someone's coming out of Cellhouse three, a guard exclaimed, coming

39:31 Speaker 2: across the yard through the smoke. He's got his hands up.

39:34 Speaker 2: Must be a messenger. Crawford hurried to a window overlooking

39:37 Speaker 2: the prison yard. Someone was approaching, but whether convict or guard,

39:40 Speaker 2: he could not tell. He watched the man advancing slowly

39:43 Speaker 2: through the smoke, ten feet away from the window where

39:45 Speaker 2: the warden stood. The man stopped. Crawford recognized slippery Dell Hanlan,

39:50 Speaker 2: a stick up man sent from Denver for life. What's

39:53 Speaker 2: on your mind, Dell, Crawford asked, I've been sent out

39:56 Speaker 2: with a message, and there's a rifle trained on my

39:59 Speaker 2: back right now. I'm not party to this, Warden. All right,

40:02 Speaker 2: let's have the message. What's wanted? I'm instructed to tell you, sir,

40:06 Speaker 2: the leaders want two automobiles put at Westgate for their

40:09 Speaker 2: use at sundown. They must be good machines and their

40:12 Speaker 2: tanks must be full of gasoline. And they want to

40:14 Speaker 2: guarantee that the men who get into the machines will

40:17 Speaker 2: not be molested. And if I refuse, the warden asked,

40:20 Speaker 2: noting that it was three point thirty pm, the guards

40:23 Speaker 2: who were prisoners will be killed one at a time

40:25 Speaker 2: and their bodies sent out to Westgate. Come clean, now,

40:28 Speaker 2: doll and tell me who sent this message. Well, Warden,

40:31 Speaker 2: I'd like to tell you that, but I can't. I've

40:34 Speaker 2: got to go back with your answer. If they suspect

40:36 Speaker 2: that I told you anything. They'll kill me and Warden

40:39 Speaker 2: if I don't go back with an answer. They won't

40:41 Speaker 2: wait until sundown to kill the captive guards. So you see,

40:45 Speaker 2: I can't answer your question. How many guns have they got,

40:48 Speaker 2: Crawford asked, deciding not to press the convict further. I

40:51 Speaker 2: don't know exactly The men who sent me out of

40:53 Speaker 2: a revolver each and they've got a rifle. You know

40:56 Speaker 2: about that, don't you? The rifle, the one from the

40:58 Speaker 2: crow's nest. They got it when they killed Irwin shot

41:01 Speaker 2: him as they came down the ladder. Joe Schillo saw

41:03 Speaker 2: Irwin lying at the foot of the ladder. Where's his body?

41:06 Speaker 2: And when Hanlan said he didn't know Warden, Crawford asked,

41:09 Speaker 2: who's the wounded man? I didn't see him, and they're

41:12 Speaker 2: not telling me much. They figure I'm a friend of yours.

41:15 Speaker 2: But I heard the wounded man groaning and sell House three.

41:18 Speaker 2: They've got him in a bunk. Crawford was silent as

41:20 Speaker 2: he seemed to be preparing a reply to send back

41:23 Speaker 2: to the convict leaders. Presently, he spoke, well, dealt go

41:27 Speaker 2: back and tell him I cannot compromise with criminals, but

41:30 Speaker 2: they'll kill the guards, Handlan warned. The warden gritted his

41:34 Speaker 2: teeth and turned away, indicating that the interview was at

41:36 Speaker 2: an end and that his decision had been made. Hanlan

41:39 Speaker 2: walked back through the smoke to sell House three. He

41:42 Speaker 2: disappeared through the door. In a few minutes. A shot

41:46 Speaker 2: echoed through the prison enclosure. Warden Crawford, on his way

41:49 Speaker 2: back to his office, stopped when he heard it. Handlin her.

41:52 Speaker 2: He gasped, and before he finished his speculation on the

41:55 Speaker 2: meaning of the shot, another one rang out. The message

41:58 Speaker 2: convict Hanlon had brought out of Cellhouse three was disturbing.

42:02 Speaker 2: Speculating on the import of the shots he had heard.

42:04 Speaker 2: As Hamlin passed into Sellhouse three, Warden Crawford sank down

42:08 Speaker 2: on his swivel chair to try to formulate a plan

42:11 Speaker 2: or campaign. How far would the convict revolters go? Would

42:14 Speaker 2: they make good on their threat to kill the fifteen

42:17 Speaker 2: guards if their demand for automobiles in which to escape

42:19 Speaker 2: was not met, had they already started on their slaughter?

42:22 Speaker 2: And did the shots that echoed through the prison enclosure

42:25 Speaker 2: after Hamlon had gone back with the warden's message mean

42:28 Speaker 2: that other guards had been slain? These questions coursed through

42:31 Speaker 2: the warden's mind, and as he tried to find the

42:34 Speaker 2: answers for them, his office filled up with men willing

42:37 Speaker 2: and anxious to assist him in solving his problem. Among

42:42 Speaker 2: them was Father Patrick O'Neill, a monk from the Benedictine Abbey,

42:46 Speaker 2: the prison chaplain. Two problems confronted the warden. He must

42:50 Speaker 2: deal with the convicts and suppress their rebellion. And he

42:53 Speaker 2: must fight the fire that was reducing the mess hall

42:55 Speaker 2: and chapel to a pile of smoldering embers and spreading

42:58 Speaker 2: rapidly to sell House's won and two. The warden reason

43:01 Speaker 2: that the tasks must be performed simultaneously, one crew to

43:05 Speaker 2: fight the convicts while another fought the flames. As matters

43:08 Speaker 2: stood at the moment, it was extremely dangerous to send

43:11 Speaker 2: unarmed men into the prison enclosure with fire lines. They

43:15 Speaker 2: would be shot down. The fire evidently was part of

43:18 Speaker 2: the convict revolt plot, and the desperate men entrenched in

43:21 Speaker 2: Cellhouse three, armed and apparently prepared to withstand a long siege,

43:25 Speaker 2: would not permit it to be extinguished without making it costly.

43:28 Speaker 2: The warden reasoned it would mean more lives, and so

43:31 Speaker 2: when the fire companies from Pueblo reported for duty. Warden

43:35 Speaker 2: Crawford directed them to stand by and wait. Meanwhile, the

43:38 Speaker 2: fire would have to burn, regardless of consequences. With his advisors,

43:43 Speaker 2: Warden Crawford concentrated on a plan of attack against the

43:46 Speaker 2: convict stronghold. Various projects were suggested and as quickly rejected.

43:51 Speaker 2: Possible effectiveness of a concerted attack by an armed force

43:54 Speaker 2: converging on Cellhouse three from Westgate was discussed. Chief lou

43:59 Speaker 2: Suref of the State Police volunteered to lead an attacking party,

44:02 Speaker 2: but the possibilities for slaughter were too overwhelming if we

44:06 Speaker 2: only knew their strength and weapons. Warden Crawford's side, We're

44:11 Speaker 2: gonna pause here briefly for some quick messages from our sponsors.

44:16 Speaker 2: But hang in there because Part two of Canyon City

44:19 Speaker 2: Carnage will be right back. Practical advice was given to

44:34 Speaker 2: the conference by an old time campaigner after Captain Keith,

44:37 Speaker 2: commanding officer of Battery B, set his plane down at

44:41 Speaker 2: the Canyon City airport and hurried by automobile to the

44:44 Speaker 2: Warden's office. He suggested a triple plan of action. An

44:48 Speaker 2: attack from the air, a bombardment of Cellhouse three with

44:51 Speaker 2: tear bombs and a barrage of lead laid down from

44:54 Speaker 2: machine guns mounted on the west wall. Good suggestions, agreed

44:58 Speaker 2: the warden, but with their elements of danger, dropping bombs

45:02 Speaker 2: from a plane on cell House three unquestionably would be effective,

45:06 Speaker 2: too effective. In fact, it would defeat our purpose. Bombs

45:10 Speaker 2: are no respectors of individuals. They would kill guards as

45:13 Speaker 2: well as convicts and revolters. We can't have a slaughter

45:17 Speaker 2: of convicts, many of whom are like Handlin, out of

45:19 Speaker 2: sympathy with the mutiny, but compelled by circumstances to remain

45:23 Speaker 2: in cell House three and appear to give their sanction

45:26 Speaker 2: to the thing. Further, the clouds of smoke rising from

45:29 Speaker 2: the burning buildings would make a campaign from the clouds

45:32 Speaker 2: extremely hazardous for a flyer, And besides, we haven't any bombs.

45:37 Speaker 2: Tear bombs would be effective if we get near enough

45:39 Speaker 2: to the cell house to get them inside, but to

45:41 Speaker 2: do that we'd have to face fire from an unknown

45:44 Speaker 2: number of guns. That would mean more lives. But we

45:47 Speaker 2: might mount the machine guns on the west wall and

45:49 Speaker 2: rake the corridors of the cell house. Locked in the cells,

45:52 Speaker 2: the guards would be out of range, but the bullets

45:55 Speaker 2: might find marks and the worthless carcasses of the ringleaders.

45:58 Speaker 2: A steady stream of lead from a machine guns might

46:01 Speaker 2: break the morale of the revolters. We'll try it. As

46:04 Speaker 2: the Warden finished, the trucks bearing the guardsmen of Battery

46:07 Speaker 2: b rumbled over the cobblestones outside his office, and Captain

46:11 Speaker 2: Keef hurried from the conference room with Chief Shurf and

46:14 Speaker 2: gave orders for mounting the machine guns. Tear out that

46:17 Speaker 2: west wall with a charge of dynamite. Someone remaining in

46:20 Speaker 2: the conference room suggested a great idea. Warden Crawford agreed,

46:24 Speaker 2: But who'll carry the dynamite? It'll take one hundred pounds

46:27 Speaker 2: to tear out the wall. Who will cross the fifty

46:29 Speaker 2: yards of no man's land between Westgate and Cell House

46:32 Speaker 2: three with one hundred pounds of dynamite in his arms? No, men,

46:35 Speaker 2: it can't be done. A fall, a carefully aimed convict bullet,

46:39 Speaker 2: the slightest friction might set the dynamite off. And then

46:43 Speaker 2: the Warden covered his eyes as if to shut out

46:45 Speaker 2: a ghastly sight. Terrible, horrible, a man blown to bits,

46:49 Speaker 2: the warden exclaimed, and dismissed the idea. His advisers were silent,

46:53 Speaker 2: and after a few minutes, someone of the group disputed

46:56 Speaker 2: the warren. Not so terrible, Jeane, A voice said, not

47:00 Speaker 2: so horrible for a man prepared to meet his God,

47:04 Speaker 2: a man without family. I'll take it in and God

47:07 Speaker 2: grant that I may succeed. But if I don't, may

47:09 Speaker 2: a merciful Savior have mercy on me. The speaker Rose

47:13 Speaker 2: Warden Crawford, recognized the voice the minute the man spoke,

47:17 Speaker 2: but he could not believe his ears, And then in

47:20 Speaker 2: an instant he knew his gravest fears were confirmed. There

47:23 Speaker 2: before him were the moving lips, the smiling, good natured

47:26 Speaker 2: Irish face, the Roman collar showing white around the speaker's neck.

47:31 Speaker 2: Father Patrick O'Neill, it was, who volunteered to carry the

47:34 Speaker 2: dynamite into the prison yard and plant it beneath the

47:37 Speaker 2: sturdy stone wall of Cell House three, Father Pat, Why

47:41 Speaker 2: you can't do that, the warden exclaimed, in horror. And

47:44 Speaker 2: why not? I'm able bodied, The weight of it'd be nothing,

47:47 Speaker 2: and the bullets I won't be touched. I'm single and

47:50 Speaker 2: the only man qualified for the mission. I'll go. The

47:53 Speaker 2: door to the Warden's office swung open, and a guard

47:56 Speaker 2: rushed in. He was excited, out of breath, some one

47:59 Speaker 2: else's he stuttered again. Warden Crawford hurried to the window

48:03 Speaker 2: from which he had watched Hamlin advance from Cellhouse three.

48:07 Speaker 2: The sun was gradually slipping down behind the hills, and

48:10 Speaker 2: he was conscious that it would soon be sundown, the

48:12 Speaker 2: hour of the threatened slaughter of the fourteen guards remaining

48:16 Speaker 2: in the convict's clutches, he saw a man stumble through

48:19 Speaker 2: the smoke clouds, and he noted that Selhouse's one and

48:22 Speaker 2: two were now burning, the flames already consuming the roofs.

48:27 Speaker 2: Joe Shillow, the warden exclaimed, as he recognized the advancing figure.

48:31 Speaker 2: Now we'll get some real information. Guards opened a double

48:34 Speaker 2: set of barred doors to admit Shillo to the administration building,

48:37 Speaker 2: and he hurried into the Warden's office. As he closed

48:40 Speaker 2: the door, two shots sounded in the direction of Cellhouse three. God,

48:44 Speaker 2: he groaned, he did it. There's two more dead, Old

48:48 Speaker 2: Jack Eels, the hangman and Bob Wiggins. What do you mean, Shillo,

48:52 Speaker 2: Explain yourself, the warden demanded, and the liberated guard proceeded

48:56 Speaker 2: with his story. They told me, if I didn't come

48:58 Speaker 2: back with an answer. They'd kill Eels and Wiggins. They

49:01 Speaker 2: saw me come inside and they figured I wouldn't come back. Warden.

49:05 Speaker 2: There's four dead men in there now. They want those autos.

49:08 Speaker 2: Four dead. The warden questioned, yes, four Eels and Wiggins,

49:13 Speaker 2: if they just killed him and Irwin and RP. Brown.

49:16 Speaker 2: He shot Brown after Hanlan came back with your answer

49:19 Speaker 2: of no compromise. Maybe you heard the shot. He called

49:22 Speaker 2: Brown out of the cell and shot him through the head.

49:25 Speaker 2: That's for Pardu, he said, who said? Crawford interrupted, Oh,

49:29 Speaker 2: I thought you knew. I mean Daniels. He's the leader

49:31 Speaker 2: with Pardu. But Pardu is wounded. He's lying there on

49:34 Speaker 2: a bunk in his cell. Hit pretty bad. Daniels killed

49:37 Speaker 2: Shorty Irwin as he came down the ladder from the

49:39 Speaker 2: crow's nest, and Pardue snatched up his gunstock and keys,

49:42 Speaker 2: climbed up the crow's nest and got the rifle barrel.

49:45 Speaker 2: Then he had a rifle, but Pardue didn't use it long.

49:47 Speaker 2: Someone shot him from one of the towers. Goodwin, I suppose,

49:51 Speaker 2: Daniels says, Pardue got Goodwin. Is that so? The warden

49:54 Speaker 2: nodded and urged Shillo to continue what happened in the

49:57 Speaker 2: mess hall. He asked, I was alone in Warden Green's

50:00 Speaker 2: office next to the mess hall at lunch time. I

50:02 Speaker 2: heard a shot. That was after the cons had marched out.

50:05 Speaker 2: I went to investigate, and Daniels and Pardu were standing

50:08 Speaker 2: over Shorty. They covered me. I begged him not to

50:10 Speaker 2: let Shorty die like a dog and to allow me

50:12 Speaker 2: to get to him. Go ahead, Daniels said, but no tricks.

50:16 Speaker 2: He pressed his revolver against me. Don't you believe I'd

50:19 Speaker 2: kill you, Joey asked. I nodded, and he said there

50:22 Speaker 2: may be some yellow guys in this, but I'm not

50:24 Speaker 2: I'll kill you in a minute. And I said I

50:26 Speaker 2: believed him, and he let me go to Shorty. He

50:28 Speaker 2: was dying. Joey said, it's all off with me. Tell

50:31 Speaker 2: my wife I'd died fighting, and put something under my

50:34 Speaker 2: head and take off my shoes. Then he gasped he

50:37 Speaker 2: was dead. The guard paused in his recital to urge

50:40 Speaker 2: the warden to immediate concerted action to quell the riot

50:43 Speaker 2: and rescue the guards, emphasizing that the convicts were desperate

50:46 Speaker 2: and the slaughter of their prisoners was imminent unless their

50:49 Speaker 2: release was effected before sundown. We got to know what

50:52 Speaker 2: we're up against. Joe, tell us what you saw and heard,

50:54 Speaker 2: and try to remember how many weapons you saw on

50:56 Speaker 2: what talk you heard about him, the warden informed him.

50:59 Speaker 2: Then we can hand the situation intelligently. So far, we're

51:02 Speaker 2: groping in the dark. Well, Jollo continued, As I was

51:06 Speaker 2: leaning over Shorty just before he died, Pardue ran into

51:09 Speaker 2: the mess hall door. I heard two shots, one near

51:11 Speaker 2: and one far off. They seemed to come together. Pardue

51:14 Speaker 2: fell out into the yard and Daniels said he had

51:16 Speaker 2: been hit. He told me to get his body and

51:19 Speaker 2: carry it to sell House three. But when I got

51:21 Speaker 2: to the door, four convicts and guard uniforms were carrying

51:24 Speaker 2: him away. Daniels made four more cons also rigged out

51:27 Speaker 2: in guard uniforms, Carrie Shorty's body into cell house three.

51:30 Speaker 2: All the captive guards were herded into number three cell

51:33 Speaker 2: block and locked down in the cells. Daniels was sore

51:37 Speaker 2: at brown. Now, Joe, how many guns? Who has them?

51:39 Speaker 2: And who are the ones assisting Daniels? The warden prompted, hmm,

51:43 Speaker 2: let me see red majors and ah Davis had guns

51:46 Speaker 2: and they were doing what Daniels told him. Majors also

51:49 Speaker 2: had a butcher knife, and Leo mcghenty had a gun.

51:52 Speaker 2: Daniels gave it to him. That was before he accused

51:55 Speaker 2: mcghenty of spoiling his play by starting the fire. Daniels

51:58 Speaker 2: didn't want the fire, had others. Then there was the rifle,

52:01 Speaker 2: and I heard someone talk of other guns. But I

52:03 Speaker 2: don't know who has them. Any idea where they got

52:06 Speaker 2: the guns? No, but I think they had them hidden

52:08 Speaker 2: in Pardue's cell. There are two holes drilled through the

52:11 Speaker 2: cement veneer over a ventilator shaft. The holes are near

52:14 Speaker 2: the bottom of the shaft. Guns could have been dropped

52:17 Speaker 2: into the ventilator through an opening at the top. They

52:19 Speaker 2: could also hide ammunition there. How about ammunition? How much

52:22 Speaker 2: have they got? Their pockets are bulging with it. Daniels

52:26 Speaker 2: bragged about the amount they have, but didn't specify what

52:28 Speaker 2: it is. As Shiloh concluded his narrative in the Warden's office,

52:32 Speaker 2: same messenger raced towards it from the West Gate, three

52:35 Speaker 2: city blocks distant. Out of breath, he burst into the office,

52:40 Speaker 2: his eyes dancing with excitement, his lips quivering two bodies,

52:44 Speaker 2: the messenger managed to blurt out as the surprise group

52:47 Speaker 2: leaped to their feet and gathered around him. Westgate, two bodies.

52:51 Speaker 2: Convicts just threw them into the yard. Two bodies see

52:54 Speaker 2: them from the west gate, the messenger exclaimed, jumbling his

52:57 Speaker 2: words in his eagerness to get the story. Told, Oh, yeah, yes,

53:00 Speaker 2: I forgot Schiloh interposed. Daniels said he'd kill Eccles and

53:03 Speaker 2: Wiggins and throw their bodies out of Cellhouse three if

53:06 Speaker 2: I didn't come back with an answer. These bodies explained

53:09 Speaker 2: the two shots we heard when I came here. They've

53:11 Speaker 2: killed Eccles and Wiggins. The devils, exclaimed Father O'Neil, and

53:15 Speaker 2: Warden Crawford, pacing the floor in thought, pressed an electric switch,

53:19 Speaker 2: flooding his office with light. The sudden brightness seemed to

53:22 Speaker 2: arouse him from his reverie. He turned and looked out

53:25 Speaker 2: of his office window, noting the long shadows cast by

53:27 Speaker 2: the sun as it dropped lower behind the hills. Turning

53:30 Speaker 2: to Father O'Neil, he said, it's sundown. Father Pat, I

53:34 Speaker 2: guess you'll have to go inside the walls with dynamite.

53:36 Speaker 2: I am ready. Warden was the priest's reply as he

53:39 Speaker 2: touched a match to his half smoked cigar. The next

53:42 Speaker 2: two hours was a period of intense activity. Captain Keith

53:46 Speaker 2: and the men of Battery B labored cautiously but speedily

53:50 Speaker 2: mounting the machine guns on the west wall. This work

53:53 Speaker 2: was undertaken with due consideration of possible sniping by the

53:56 Speaker 2: convicts and cellhouse three. Chief of Police are f Reed

54:00 Speaker 2: of Denver and Captain Frank Campbell, an ex gunner of

54:03 Speaker 2: the United States Navy, and the pistol marksmen of the

54:06 Speaker 2: Denver Police Department ordered an armored car rushed to the

54:09 Speaker 2: penitentiary from Denver. The field piece, already aboard a truck

54:13 Speaker 2: an en route from the Pueblo Armory of the National Guard,

54:16 Speaker 2: would arrive soon. A tank was being hurried by truck

54:19 Speaker 2: from the National Guard rifle range at Golden near Denver.

54:22 Speaker 2: Deputy Warden Billy Green had procured the dynamite which Father

54:26 Speaker 2: O'Neil was to carry inside from the prison. Arsenal electricians

54:30 Speaker 2: were hurrying to complete battery connections to explode the powder.

54:33 Speaker 2: An attacking crew under the leadership of Chief Sherry was

54:37 Speaker 2: organized and supplied with tear bombs. On the hillsides back

54:40 Speaker 2: of the north wall. Search lights were installed to illuminate

54:43 Speaker 2: the prison grounds when the flames of the burning buildings

54:45 Speaker 2: died down. The convicts had put the electric lighting system

54:48 Speaker 2: in the cellhouses out of commission. By eight o'clock, the

54:51 Speaker 2: preparations for the attack were almost complete. No messenger had

54:55 Speaker 2: come out of Cellhouse three since Shillo carried Daniel's ultimatum

54:58 Speaker 2: to the warden just before sundown, and no more shots

55:01 Speaker 2: had been heard inside the prison enclosures since Echoes and

55:04 Speaker 2: Wiggins were killed. The bodies of the two guards still

55:07 Speaker 2: lay where the convicts had tossed them. They could be

55:10 Speaker 2: seen dimly from West Gate in the light reflected by

55:13 Speaker 2: the flames shooting skyward from the burning cell houses. The

55:16 Speaker 2: chapel and the mess hall were in ruins. Nothing remained

55:19 Speaker 2: of them but glowing embers and blackened walls. Smoke clouds

55:23 Speaker 2: hung over the prison like a fog. Nine o'clock struck

55:26 Speaker 2: in a nearby church tower. When Captain Keith reported he

55:29 Speaker 2: was ready to lay down his first barrage on the

55:32 Speaker 2: convicts stronghold, he received his orders to rake the corridors

55:35 Speaker 2: with lead firing through the only openings. The steel barred windows.

55:39 Speaker 2: Battery bee gunners maneuvered their weapons into position and were

55:42 Speaker 2: about to open fire when a sharp eyed watcher saw

55:45 Speaker 2: a figure moving about near the west wall of Cell

55:48 Speaker 2: House three. The fire was withheld as the figure groped

55:51 Speaker 2: about in the semi darkness, stooped over one of the bodies,

55:54 Speaker 2: lifted it from the ground, and with the burden in

55:56 Speaker 2: his arms, staggered across the fifty yards of no man's

55:59 Speaker 2: Land toward West Gate. Warden Crawford waited at the gate

56:03 Speaker 2: to receive what he knew would be another demand from

56:05 Speaker 2: the convicts, a repetition of their previous ultimatums. Ten feet

56:09 Speaker 2: from Westgate, to figure with the gruesome burdens stopped. I'm

56:13 Speaker 2: Joe Pease a guard, The man said, I've come out

56:17 Speaker 2: with a message for the Warden, and I hold in

56:19 Speaker 2: my arms the body of Bob Wiggins. He's dead, all right.

56:23 Speaker 2: Pease come up to the gate and we'll take poor

56:24 Speaker 2: Wiggins off your hands. This is the warden speaking. Peas advanced,

56:28 Speaker 2: handed the body of his comrade to a group gathered

56:30 Speaker 2: around Crawford and turned to his superior warden. They want

56:34 Speaker 2: those automobiles, Daniels says, if you don't do what he

56:37 Speaker 2: says pretty damn quick, he's just gonna kill every guard

56:40 Speaker 2: that's left. You just called John McClelland and Charlie Sheppard

56:43 Speaker 2: out of the cells. He told me he'd kill him

56:45 Speaker 2: if I didn't come back quick with an answer. You

56:47 Speaker 2: two screws better start praying, you told him, And to

56:50 Speaker 2: the other guys, he said, the rest of you guys

56:53 Speaker 2: go one at a time. If we don't get what

56:55 Speaker 2: we want, peas said the warden, that'll be enough for now.

56:58 Speaker 2: You go back and tell Daniels. I'll go give him

57:00 Speaker 2: my final answer in five minutes. Tell him to send

57:03 Speaker 2: you back for it, and pease. There'll be some firing

57:06 Speaker 2: from the west wall after you get out of range.

57:08 Speaker 2: The minute it starts, race for the gate, we'll have

57:10 Speaker 2: it open, remember five minutes. Cheered by the thought that

57:14 Speaker 2: he and possibly the other guards might soon be liberated

57:17 Speaker 2: from the terror tier in which he had been held

57:19 Speaker 2: captive for nearly nine hours, the guards started back to

57:22 Speaker 2: sell House three. With a smile on his face. He

57:24 Speaker 2: disappeared inside. In five minutes, he was advancing toward West Gate.

57:29 Speaker 2: Fifteen feet away. He stopped Warden Crawford in an undertone,

57:33 Speaker 2: urged him to come forward. Pease gave no sign that

57:35 Speaker 2: he heard, and the warden, guessing the convicts, suspected a

57:38 Speaker 2: plan to liberate the guard, and had ordered him to

57:41 Speaker 2: receive the message on the spot where he now stood,

57:43 Speaker 2: sent instructions to the machine gunners on the west wall

57:46 Speaker 2: to start firing, but to aim high. He reasoned the

57:49 Speaker 2: attack would divert convict attention from Peas and drive the

57:52 Speaker 2: ringleaders to cover. He guessed correctly. As the first crack

57:56 Speaker 2: of the machine gun fire rent the night air and

57:58 Speaker 2: bullets struck stone wall and steel bars with a peculiar

58:02 Speaker 2: sounding pin, Peas stood as if in a daze. Then

58:05 Speaker 2: suddenly he seemed to remember the instructions the warden had

58:08 Speaker 2: given him. He dashed toward the west gate. As he

58:11 Speaker 2: neared the portal, bullets from Cell House three kicked up

58:14 Speaker 2: the dust at his feet or spent themselves harmlessly against

58:17 Speaker 2: the prison ramparts. Peas gave them no heed. In a

58:20 Speaker 2: matter of minutes which seemed like hours to the agonized watchers,

58:24 Speaker 2: the gate swung open and Peas was out. I'm the

58:26 Speaker 2: luckiest man in the world, but I can't smile, he

58:30 Speaker 2: told the warden. They've killed five, he continued, in response

58:33 Speaker 2: to a question by the warden. Brown's lying in there

58:35 Speaker 2: near the cell house dead. You know about Wiggins. He's dead,

58:39 Speaker 2: isn't he. They called Jack Ecchoes out of a cell

58:41 Speaker 2: where they held him captive with some of the other boys,

58:44 Speaker 2: and told him to say his prayers. Then they shot

58:46 Speaker 2: him a bullet through the head. Shorty, Irwin's in there dead,

58:50 Speaker 2: so is Walter Rinker. Rinker dead, the warden exclaimed, and

58:54 Speaker 2: Peas nodded. Then he went on. Daniels told me when

58:58 Speaker 2: I went back just now that you better show some

59:00 Speaker 2: speed with those autos or he'd pump off every guard

59:03 Speaker 2: that's left and there. The warden made no comment, but

59:05 Speaker 2: he asked what guards were alive when you came out

59:08 Speaker 2: the last time. Shephard McClellan, E. J. Hollister, F. F. Osborne,

59:13 Speaker 2: Marvin Duncan, Lawrence Roke O a Earl, and Jack Shay

59:17 Speaker 2: Pease replied, pausing after naming each man to recollect another.

59:21 Speaker 2: Is Pardue alive? Just alive? He's suffering the tortures a

59:25 Speaker 2: hell and Daniels's promise to'll kill him, but only as

59:28 Speaker 2: a last resort. They figure, you'll supply those autos. Never

59:32 Speaker 2: the warden shouted, and at his signal, the machine guns,

59:36 Speaker 2: which were silent during the interview with Peas, resumed their attack.

59:39 Speaker 2: The hilltops echoed with the whine of bullets. The effect

59:43 Speaker 2: of the machine gun fire on the convict morale was disappointing.

59:46 Speaker 2: It was expected to drive them into the open, but

59:48 Speaker 2: when none showed themselves in the yard back of the cellhouse,

59:51 Speaker 2: Captain Keef again gave an order to cease firing. There

59:55 Speaker 2: was a short conference with the warden. The machine gunners

59:58 Speaker 2: scaled the ladder to the top of the west wall

1:00:00 Speaker 2: to again man their guns, and presently, out of the darkness,

1:00:03 Speaker 2: two men appeared and hurried towards Westgate. One of them

1:00:06 Speaker 2: was carrying a burden, a heavy one. In a moment,

1:00:09 Speaker 2: west gates swung open. The two men passed inside the

1:00:12 Speaker 2: prison enclosure, and the machine guns poured a leaden stream

1:00:15 Speaker 2: toward the convicts. Stronghold and Father O'Neill advanced toward the

1:00:19 Speaker 2: west wall of Cell House three, hugging a burden of

1:00:21 Speaker 2: one hundred pounds of dynamite to his breast. Beside him

1:00:25 Speaker 2: dragging two strands of wire attached to the percussion. Caps

1:00:28 Speaker 2: was an old miner. The machine guns kept up an

1:00:30 Speaker 2: incessant fire. Particles of lead shattering on the stone walls

1:00:34 Speaker 2: and bars of the cell house showered the priest and

1:00:36 Speaker 2: his escort, and with only half the distance to go

1:00:39 Speaker 2: before planting the dynamite against the cell house wall and

1:00:42 Speaker 2: attaching the electrical connections which would set it off, the

1:00:45 Speaker 2: convict leaders, safely concealed from the machine gun led, caught

1:00:49 Speaker 2: sight of the advancing figures. They opened fire. Their bullets

1:00:52 Speaker 2: whined above the heads of the priest and his companion

1:00:55 Speaker 2: were struck harmlessly in the dust at their feet. Never flinching,

1:00:59 Speaker 2: they advanced until nearing the wall. They were protected from

1:01:02 Speaker 2: the convict's bullets, but exposed to the machine gun barrage.

1:01:06 Speaker 2: Their danger was greater. Now would they complete the task

1:01:08 Speaker 2: they had appointed for themselves. Those who watch doubted that

1:01:12 Speaker 2: they could succeed. They saw Father O'Neill place the burden

1:01:15 Speaker 2: against the wall, saw him attach the wires. They saw

1:01:18 Speaker 2: all this dimly in the faint illumination that came down

1:01:21 Speaker 2: from the hillside where the searchlights were playing. And then,

1:01:25 Speaker 2: after what seemed like an age, they saw the figures

1:01:27 Speaker 2: of the priest and the old miner racing back towards Westgate,

1:01:30 Speaker 2: again under fire of the convicts. The deed was done.

1:01:34 Speaker 2: Now to set off the dynamite. In a moment they

1:01:36 Speaker 2: would know the outcome. Would the blast tear out the

1:01:39 Speaker 2: entire facade, Would it expose the cell house and its

1:01:41 Speaker 2: corridors to the machine gun fire as they thought it would.

1:01:44 Speaker 2: A man at a plunger switch put all of his

1:01:47 Speaker 2: power into the effort. There was a roar. It echoed

1:01:49 Speaker 2: from one mountain top and then another. The earth quivered

1:01:53 Speaker 2: glass fell in showers. The blackened walls of the burning

1:01:56 Speaker 2: and burned buildings rocked on their foundations. Frightened convy screamed

1:02:00 Speaker 2: in terror. The machine guns kept up their incessant rat

1:02:04 Speaker 2: tat tete tete tete, adding to the din and the confusion,

1:02:07 Speaker 2: and the dancing figure of militia Man Maurice Keating appeared

1:02:10 Speaker 2: on the north wall, hurling chlorine bombs, but the west

1:02:14 Speaker 2: wall of Cell House three stood solid and unharmed. The

1:02:17 Speaker 2: only visible result from the explosion of one hundred pounds

1:02:20 Speaker 2: of dynamite was an immense hole in the earthen floor

1:02:23 Speaker 2: of the prison enclosure. The chlorine bombs exploding in and

1:02:27 Speaker 2: near the cell house sent half a dozen convicts, one

1:02:29 Speaker 2: of them wounded, scurrying toward the administration building, their hands

1:02:33 Speaker 2: raised in token of surrender. Warden Crawford was chagrined at

1:02:37 Speaker 2: the failure of the dynamite charged to open a hole

1:02:39 Speaker 2: in the cell house. He conferred with his advisers. The

1:02:43 Speaker 2: armored car had arrived from Denver. It was sent into

1:02:46 Speaker 2: the prison yard with six armed men behind its armor

1:02:48 Speaker 2: plated walls. It toppled into the hole, gouged by the dynamite,

1:02:52 Speaker 2: and rolled over on its side, holding its occupant's temporary prisoners.

1:02:57 Speaker 2: Geez so. The only effect of the dynamite blast was

1:02:59 Speaker 2: to crippled the armored car they'd ordered. As soon as

1:03:02 Speaker 2: it arrived. Dang, a large field piece that's an army

1:03:06 Speaker 2: artillery gun, was rolled into position at Westgate when guardsmen

1:03:10 Speaker 2: decided shells would open a pathway for bullets into the

1:03:13 Speaker 2: cell house interior. As these preparations were being made, the

1:03:16 Speaker 2: revolt was stretching into its thirteenth hour. The machine guns,

1:03:20 Speaker 2: which had poured eight thousand rounds into the cell house

1:03:23 Speaker 2: without result, now we're silent. As their crews awaited additional ammunition,

1:03:28 Speaker 2: and as they waited, a sharp eyed guardsman discerned a

1:03:31 Speaker 2: figure slipping through the cell house door another messenger. As

1:03:35 Speaker 2: the man approached west gate, two shots rang out in

1:03:37 Speaker 2: the cell house. The man was near enough now for

1:03:40 Speaker 2: those outside to see he was a guard. I'm Jack Shay,

1:03:43 Speaker 2: he announced, with a message for the warden. The west

1:03:46 Speaker 2: gate was opened and the guard came out face to

1:03:48 Speaker 2: face with the warden. He said those two shots were

1:03:51 Speaker 2: the end of Shepherd and McClelland Daniels said. If you

1:03:54 Speaker 2: don't do something, he's going to kill all the guards

1:03:56 Speaker 2: that's left. There's five of them, Osborne, Hollister, broke or

1:04:00 Speaker 2: Earl and Duncan. I think Daniels shot Duncan during that bombardment,

1:04:03 Speaker 2: but the bullet didn't kill him. He was alive when

1:04:05 Speaker 2: I left. He won't kill Earl because of a favor

1:04:08 Speaker 2: Earl once did for one of the leaders, but the

1:04:11 Speaker 2: others are doomed. Daniels used me to take out what

1:04:14 Speaker 2: he said was his last warning. Watches showed four o'clock

1:04:18 Speaker 2: when Shay finished his story. In a little more than

1:04:20 Speaker 2: an hour, it would be daylight. Preparations for a renewal

1:04:23 Speaker 2: of the attack on Cell House three moved apace. A

1:04:27 Speaker 2: silence broken only by the shuffling of feet settled over

1:04:30 Speaker 2: the prison. All of a sudden a shot rang out

1:04:32 Speaker 2: inside a pause, and then another, followed, after an interval

1:04:36 Speaker 2: by a third, then two more. Men outside, busy with

1:04:39 Speaker 2: the task of preparing engines of destruction for what all

1:04:42 Speaker 2: believed would be the final bombardment, at daylight stopped, they

1:04:46 Speaker 2: found themselves naming names and counting them off on their

1:04:49 Speaker 2: fingers as each report sounded hollister, They counted and waited,

1:04:53 Speaker 2: and then Osbourne Duncan broke four guards slaughtered, four more

1:04:59 Speaker 2: added to the list of dead. So Daniels had kept

1:05:01 Speaker 2: his word to Earl, but he had sent another bullet

1:05:03 Speaker 2: into the body of the wounded Duncan. Thus, men speculated,

1:05:07 Speaker 2: and then a fifth shot. That was Earl Daniels hadn't

1:05:10 Speaker 2: kept his word after all. A sixth shot and a

1:05:13 Speaker 2: seventh crashed inside. What did they mean? They were easily explained,

1:05:17 Speaker 2: at least to the satisfaction of the men who milled

1:05:20 Speaker 2: about Westgate. One had sent Pardu through the gates of eternity,

1:05:24 Speaker 2: hadn't Daniels promised to kill him? Well? He'd kept his

1:05:27 Speaker 2: word to his pal, and the seventh shot well for himself.

1:05:30 Speaker 2: Of course, the revolt was over, and at what a cost.

1:05:34 Speaker 2: Someone remembered Majors and Davis. Suppose the sixth and seventh

1:05:38 Speaker 2: shot had not dispatched Daniels and Pardu, but Majors and

1:05:41 Speaker 2: Davis Instean, or perhaps two other convicts, Albert Morgaridge, for instance,

1:05:45 Speaker 2: who had defied Daniels, and Leo mcgenty, who fired the

1:05:48 Speaker 2: chapel and mess hall against Daniel's wishes. If this surmise

1:05:52 Speaker 2: was correct, the revolt was not over. Men resumed their

1:05:55 Speaker 2: preparations for the daylight attack, now a half an hour off.

1:05:59 Speaker 2: Thus engaged, none noticed two figures steal cautiously from Sellhouse

1:06:03 Speaker 2: three and stagger across the prison yard to West Gate.

1:06:06 Speaker 2: A weak voice crying for help and medical assistance was

1:06:09 Speaker 2: the first warning of their presence at the barred portal.

1:06:12 Speaker 2: For God's sake, let us out get a doctor, one

1:06:15 Speaker 2: man pleaded. Guardsmen patrolling the area whirled on their heels,

1:06:19 Speaker 2: leveled their rifles and advanced cautiously against the rays of

1:06:22 Speaker 2: the spotlight. They saw two figures clinging to the bars

1:06:25 Speaker 2: of the west gate who are you A militia man,

1:06:28 Speaker 2: challenged Hollister. Came the weak reply, Osborne said, the other

1:06:33 Speaker 2: sinking to his knees. Warden Crawford elbowed through the group

1:06:36 Speaker 2: now congregated at Westgate. He looked closely at the two men,

1:06:40 Speaker 2: turning a flashlight on their faces, but he could tell nothing.

1:06:43 Speaker 2: They were smeared with blood. Someone wiped the blood away

1:06:46 Speaker 2: with a damp cloth, and the warden recognized the guards.

1:06:50 Speaker 2: Let him out, he ordered. Osborne was unconscious when they

1:06:53 Speaker 2: carried him out, but Hollister managed to gasp out a

1:06:56 Speaker 2: message before he sank into a coma. All inside, he said.

1:07:02 Speaker 2: Soon there was another summons to Westgate. Two more men

1:07:05 Speaker 2: stood there. Open them up, boys, and let us out.

1:07:08 Speaker 2: One demanded again, the challenge of the guardsmen, who are you?

1:07:12 Speaker 2: Roke and Earl? Came the cheery reply. Warden Crawford stepped

1:07:15 Speaker 2: up to the gate. He peered at the men's faces,

1:07:18 Speaker 2: now fairly visible in the first streaks of dawn. You're alive,

1:07:22 Speaker 2: he gasped, very much, Warden. But there's plenty of dead

1:07:25 Speaker 2: men inside, Earl said. Then Roke spoke, and we'd have

1:07:28 Speaker 2: been among them, but we fooled Daniels played dead ourselves

1:07:31 Speaker 2: for hours an eternity, it seemed. We lay in the

1:07:34 Speaker 2: cells where Daniels put us, dead men all around us,

1:07:37 Speaker 2: the place sloppy with blood. Whow dead men in blood?

1:07:40 Speaker 2: A nightmare? Well, I ever forget it. It hurt to breathe.

1:07:44 Speaker 2: I lay there so long, scarcely breathing at all, afraid

1:07:47 Speaker 2: to And the cramps in my legs, God, I heard

1:07:50 Speaker 2: all over, hurt from lying there on that cold cement floor,

1:07:53 Speaker 2: never daring to move. Daylight was coming fast as Rogue

1:07:57 Speaker 2: finished the scene on which the sun rose was in

1:08:00 Speaker 2: any respects a duplication of that scene in Colorado Avenue

1:08:03 Speaker 2: at Colorado Springs two years before, when Chief of Police

1:08:07 Speaker 2: Harper snapped the bracelets on Danny Daniels and sent him

1:08:10 Speaker 2: away under guard to the El Paso County Jail and

1:08:13 Speaker 2: eventually here to the prison. Surveying it in the early

1:08:16 Speaker 2: morning light, one saw again a scene of devastation chargeable

1:08:20 Speaker 2: to Danny Daniels. Blackened walls, smoking imbers, shattered windows, bulletscarred buildings,

1:08:25 Speaker 2: and the great hole gouged in the earth by the

1:08:28 Speaker 2: dynamite Father O'Neil had carried in the armored car still

1:08:31 Speaker 2: lay on its side in the hole, and Captain Frank Campbell,

1:08:34 Speaker 2: Detective Arthur Walker of Denver, and four other men forgotten

1:08:38 Speaker 2: almost since they toppled into the chasm, crawled from their prison,

1:08:42 Speaker 2: just as a line of convicts, hands above their heads,

1:08:45 Speaker 2: filed out of Cellhouse three. The riot was indeed over

1:08:48 Speaker 2: now to count the cost Warden Crawford led the way inside.

1:08:52 Speaker 2: What a sight, the floors slicked with blood and dead

1:08:55 Speaker 2: cons and guards everywhere, dead men in bloody piles, and

1:08:59 Speaker 2: singly off. There Morgaridge a bullet in his back, lying

1:09:02 Speaker 2: alone where Daniels had dropped him. He gave his life

1:09:05 Speaker 2: in defiance of Daniel's reign of terror. And there the

1:09:08 Speaker 2: body of Daniels, a pistol clutched in his hand, and

1:09:11 Speaker 2: beneath him Major's and Davis shot through the head. The

1:09:15 Speaker 2: story was plain enough. They were the last to go.

1:09:17 Speaker 2: Daniels dispatched them, Davis first, perhaps, then Major's and his

1:09:21 Speaker 2: last bullet for himself, had he kept his word to Pardue.

1:09:24 Speaker 2: They found him in his bunk, a shot through the groin,

1:09:27 Speaker 2: and that was Goodwin's bullet. Another in his head that

1:09:31 Speaker 2: was Daniels again, Daniels had kept his word, and the guards.

1:09:35 Speaker 2: They were there too. Ecchels, the veteran hangman dead inside

1:09:39 Speaker 2: a cell. The door was ajar. Duncan's body was inside

1:09:42 Speaker 2: a locked cell. The key was gone, and the detail

1:09:45 Speaker 2: of the rescue corps labored with a blow torch to

1:09:47 Speaker 2: reach him. Shorty Irwin was there too, lying close to Duncan,

1:09:51 Speaker 2: and so was Rinker and Shepherd and mc clellan, all dead.

1:09:56 Speaker 2: Brown's body was inside where it had been tossed with

1:09:58 Speaker 2: wiggins corpse. The blowtorch cut through the last bar of steel.

1:10:03 Speaker 2: The cell door was flung back, and the rescue squad

1:10:05 Speaker 2: filed in their flashlights playing on the ashen faces of

1:10:09 Speaker 2: the dead. Duncan blinked a slight movement of the eyelid.

1:10:13 Speaker 2: There's life in him, someone shouted, noting the quiver of

1:10:16 Speaker 2: the eyelid. Down on their knees and the blood and

1:10:18 Speaker 2: the litter men examined him. He was whole, not a

1:10:21 Speaker 2: bullet in his body, but scared almost to death. A

1:10:24 Speaker 2: stretcher was hastily summoned the cons He screamed, almost insane

1:10:29 Speaker 2: with terror as they lifted him to the stretcher, and

1:10:31 Speaker 2: then he fell back limp fighting convicts figments of his imagination.

1:10:35 Speaker 2: They hurried him to the hospital, but the other guards

1:10:39 Speaker 2: they were dead, every man shot through the head. The

1:10:42 Speaker 2: rescuers counted them. There were six. With Wiggins, whose body

1:10:46 Speaker 2: was carried out, there was seven, and later, though they

1:10:49 Speaker 2: didn't know it, there would be eight. Goodwin was doomed.

1:10:53 Speaker 2: Eight guards and five convicts. Damn it. Warden Crawford groaned

1:10:58 Speaker 2: as he turned again to look the corpse of the

1:11:01 Speaker 2: man responsible. A big black cat laughed at the blood

1:11:05 Speaker 2: congealed on the ashen face of Danny Daniels, and his

1:11:09 Speaker 2: bony fist still clutched a cheap six shooter. There he

1:11:13 Speaker 2: lay on the cold prison floor, dead in a charnel

1:11:16 Speaker 2: house of his own creation. Hold on, A big black

1:11:19 Speaker 2: cat was licking the blood off of Danny Daniel's face.

1:11:23 Speaker 2: Where did the cat come from? I'm reminded of season

1:11:26 Speaker 2: four of Stranger Things no spoilers here, when Jason says,

1:11:30 Speaker 2: how do you expect to stop the devil if you

1:11:32 Speaker 2: don't believe he's real? Feel like, that's a supernatural black cat,

1:11:36 Speaker 2: don't you? I mean, what's a cat doing calmly hanging

1:11:39 Speaker 2: out with all that gunfire and bombs going off. My goodness,

1:11:44 Speaker 2: So there Daniels lay, providing a congealed blood meal for

1:11:47 Speaker 2: a giant black cat, there on the cold prison floor,

1:11:51 Speaker 2: dead in a charnel house of his own creation. He

1:11:54 Speaker 2: had died fighting, as indicated by the prison cell tear,

1:11:57 Speaker 2: drenched in blood, scarred by bullets, shaken by fire and dynamite,

1:12:02 Speaker 2: and blackened by smoke. Someone collected the weapons used to

1:12:06 Speaker 2: hold off one thousand men. There were only four, the

1:12:09 Speaker 2: rifle from the crow's nest, and three six shooters. Two

1:12:12 Speaker 2: of them were rusty, one tough bird. Warden Crawford remarked

1:12:17 Speaker 2: and stepped across the threshold into the prison yard. Smoke

1:12:20 Speaker 2: still rose in curling wisps from the ruin of the

1:12:23 Speaker 2: adjoining cellhouses, the chapel and the mess hall, in which

1:12:26 Speaker 2: also lay the ashes of the cremated hopes of rebel

1:12:30 Speaker 2: Danny and his pals. So can I just say really

1:12:34 Speaker 2: quickly that it seems as though the warden handled this terribly.

1:12:38 Speaker 2: They had four guns, four so if he'd had the

1:12:42 Speaker 2: courage to rush the cell block, a lot of lives

1:12:45 Speaker 2: could have been saved. Now, granted, hindsight is twenty twenty.

1:12:48 Speaker 2: But also remember that they had to smuggle all the

1:12:52 Speaker 2: weapons into prison. So if you think about it logically,

1:12:55 Speaker 2: how many guns could the convicts possibly have? Four seems

1:12:59 Speaker 2: like a pretty good yes, And for it was the

1:13:02 Speaker 2: only one with the courage to be truly proactive was

1:13:05 Speaker 2: the Irish priest. And somehow his hundred pounds of dynamite

1:13:09 Speaker 2: had very little effect except to cripple the armored car.

1:13:13 Speaker 2: But the dynamiting was a good idea, and the warden

1:13:16 Speaker 2: almost didn't want anyone to do that either. It was

1:13:19 Speaker 2: only at the priest's insistence that he allowed it. If

1:13:22 Speaker 2: only he had taken the advice of the experts and

1:13:25 Speaker 2: proactively rushed the compound, who knows, but it seems like

1:13:29 Speaker 2: a lot of lives could have been saved, all right enough,

1:13:32 Speaker 2: editorializing back to the story, it remained for one of

1:13:35 Speaker 2: the convicts to solve the mystery of the rebel's death.

1:13:39 Speaker 2: At about four o'clock in the morning, said a terror

1:13:41 Speaker 2: numbed convict who stood next to the cell in which

1:13:44 Speaker 2: Danny Daniels had snuffed out the lives of his compatriots

1:13:47 Speaker 2: and his own. Danny, who had been walking up and

1:13:50 Speaker 2: down the corridor in cell House number three, called Red

1:13:53 Speaker 2: Riley and A. H. Davis to him in the cell

1:13:56 Speaker 2: where Jimmy Pardu lay wounded boys. He told him we're

1:14:00 Speaker 2: fight in a losing battle. What'll we do? Pardue spoke

1:14:03 Speaker 2: up and said, Danny, end it with me before the

1:14:06 Speaker 2: screws get me. Davis and Riley agreed. The two stood up.

1:14:10 Speaker 2: Daniels went into the cell, shot Purdue in the head,

1:14:13 Speaker 2: then shot Davis and Riley in succession. They fell upon

1:14:16 Speaker 2: each other and lay in a bloody pile. Then Daniels

1:14:20 Speaker 2: went outside the cell and walked up and down for

1:14:22 Speaker 2: a minute and then said, well, my pals are gone,

1:14:25 Speaker 2: the screws are all dead. I'll end it. He put

1:14:29 Speaker 2: the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. And

1:14:32 Speaker 2: that is the terrible ending to the epic and horrible

1:14:36 Speaker 2: true story Carnage at Canyon City. This story ends in suicide,

1:14:41 Speaker 2: which is always tragic. No matter who takes their own life,

1:14:44 Speaker 2: all life is precious. Even a hardened murderer like Danny

1:14:48 Speaker 2: Daniels had people who loved him. He had a wife

1:14:51 Speaker 2: and a child in Oklahoma. Anyone who goes, and especially

1:14:55 Speaker 2: those who take their own lives, will always be mourned

1:14:59 Speaker 2: and by those who love them, and so I wanted

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