Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1898 — CONVICTS KILL PRISON GUARD. [ARTICLE]

CONVICTS KILL PRISON GUARD.

Attempt to Fhoot Their Way Out of Ohio Penitentiary. Frank O’Neil and George Atkinson, two convicts from Cleveland, serving fifteen years each for highway robbery, attempted to shoot their - way out of the Ohio State prison Friday morning. C. B. Lauterbach, a guard from Knox County, attempted to stop them and was shot dead instantly. Guard Woods then presented himself in the path of the prisoners, and fifteen shots were fired by the guard and the prisoners, none of which took effect. Having emptied his revolver Guard Woods attacked the man with a club, crushing the skull of one of them anjl breaking the shoulder of the other. One will die. While the fight was going on several other prisoners were seen to have guns and a general alarm called the guards to the walls with their carbines. As soon as O’Neil and Atkinson were apprehended. howeyer. all signs of trouble ended. Warden Coffin has no idea how or where the guns were procured.