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DICUCpenitential yIIImond after a series of stab-bings and assaults.Earlier Monday, 250 state troopers and guards waded through showers of paint and scalding water and retook the three celiblocks held by 100 other rebelling convicts.The last cellblock was retaken at 11:30 a.m. bytroop-Officer kills kidnaperwho threatened babyAssociated PressVIDALIA, La. - A kidnaper, who held off sheriff’s deputies by pointing a.gun at a 10 - month - old baby’s head, was shot in the back and killed at a roadblock Monday when he turned to shoot at officers.The child, Dana Ashley Magee, escaped injury and was returned to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Magee who live near Vidalia. She had been abducted some two hours earlier in a robbery at the family’s home on Lake Concordia. Magee is a prominent lawyer in the area.Timmv Phil line Af P-Arrirlav story celiblocks and three-sto-17 dormitories about 11:30 p.m. Sunday when they returned from watching television.Tension began building up when two convicts were accused of abusing a guard and taking swings at him in the dining hall during the evening meal, authorities said.plot. He was not immediately charged.Concordia Sheriff Fred Schiele gave this account:About 10:45 a.m. two men broke into the Magee home, tied Mrs. Magee with rope, robbed the house and fled with about $400 in cash, Magee’s car and the girl.A neighbor called police. Officers quickly spotted the big white Cadillac in which the men fled.A.L.CAurfn AiOfficers from several parishes converged on the area, and joined in the chase along unpaved roads at speeds upAND £MORTIAbout 5 a.m., ed the convicts ond cellblock. 1 eral hours undlt; courtyard whilepated and thento their ells.ac'sSr?Sf»iP ■ ■BfJSgSS ' ' BS-8S• . ■:x: *.•: :'-v • f •: •v*■ 'vv; . ..... . ...Six hours k fired gas into block where th prisoners threa a fire.£ mm% * - • - - ' - . I, v;.: f .... 3, — m?:5-!. ..Man m the tributi
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Phoenix Arizona Republic
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Tue, Jul 17, 1973
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