Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1920 — CONVICT IS SHOT AT JOLIET [ARTICLE]

CONVICT IS SHOT AT JOLIET

Chicago Murderer Is Fired On When Mutiny Is Started. Joliet, 111., Aug. 20.—Louis Eckles, n Chicago convict, was shot down In a carefully planned attempt to break for liberty in the new prison here. Other convicts attempted to overpower the guards, but were driven to their cells before the disturbance could assume threatening proportions. At least twenty convicts were in the plan to mutiny. At an appointed time they set fires in six different portions of the prison yard. In the ensuing confusion Eckles, who is believed to have been the ringleader, attacked a guard. He was wounded and other convicts who attempted to go to his aid were beaten back.