People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — MURDER IN PRISON. [ARTICLE]

MURDER IN PRISON.

John Johnson Kills Two Fellow-Convicts at Auburn, N. Y., and Wounds Two Others. Auburn, N. Y., April 18.—John Johnson, who is known as “the blue nigger from Clyde,” ran amuck in the broom shop of Auburn prison Monday morning. He was armed with a sharp knife used in cutting broomcorn and first attacked Charles Peck, a fel-low-convict from Westchester county. Leaving him dead in his tracks he next fatally stabbed Daniel Britton, a convict, and wounded two others before he waa shot by a keeper inn rendered powerless.