Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1913 — CONVICTS IN SUICIDE PACT [ARTICLE]

CONVICTS IN SUICIDE PACT

Jailer Found Two English Murderers Dead in Their Cells In Maidstone Prison.

London.—Two connote, twenty five and thirty-one years' old, both of whom were serving life sentences for murder, were found dead In one, cell 'n Maidstone prison. Their thrOats had been cut with a rude knife, which the prisoners had Improvised out of a piece of Iron while they were working in the tinsmith shop of the Jail. injuries of one of the convicts were such that It la believed they could not have been self-inflicted, and it la supposed that the other men killed him at his request.