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Daring Warden Smashes Arizona Prison Rebellion.10 ,.23 ...9 ..19 1,15 ..19 ..16 • 6,7FLORENCE. Ariz. UP) —A steel-nerved warden led 25 lawmen storming into barricades at the Arizona State Prison Thursday night, and rescued two guards held by rebellious convicts.Despite warnings from the 46 insurgent prisoners that they,would kill their hostages if attacked. Warden Frank Eyman decided to call their bluff—and won his desperate gamble.. KIOISES ADAMS, 33, an inmate convicted of statutory rape, was shot in the back during the furious assault He was reported in poor condition but was expected to live.About 300 National Guardsmen, deputies, police officers, guards ar.d civilian volunteers ringed the yallsquelled at 11 p. m.Guards Calvin Hunt, 33, who come to Arizona from Winlhrop. Maine, and Scott Wright, 30, formerly of Ardmore, Okla., were held hostage for nearly an hour.BOTH LATER expressed fear the prisoners would have killed them with their homemade knives after the warden announced he would not bow to inmates' demands to take over the prison.“They told me to 'tell them guys (the lawmen) not to come any closer or we’ll kill you', said Wrght. 1 didn't say anything.with rifles and automatic weapons to guard against new outbreaks. The riot \-asremained in their cells throughout the crisis.The prison, 70 miles southeast of Phoenix, was officially opened in 1912...It wa? built to accommodate 700.The convicts staged an abortive sitdown strike earlier this week to protest what, they termed poor food, inadequate clothing and crowded conditions.Warden Feared He'd Find 2 Dead GuardsAT THIS point. Warden Eyman. a graying. 60-ycor-old former sheriff armed with a .45 automatic pistol, shouted to the barricaded convicts:If you S-O-Bs even so much as scratch my men, I’ll kill ail of you.The other 1,400 prisonersFLORENCE, Ariz. 0R-What was in the mind of warden Frank Eyman of the Arizona State Prison as he faced down rebellious prisoners who had threatened to kill hostage guards?“You think 'you are going in there to get your guards/’’ the bronzed-faced man with gimlet blue eyes said Friday.'iherman AdamsI THOUGHT I was going to have tO kill 15 or 20.I'm lnrlrv T Airin'! '»
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Waterloo Daily Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Fri, Dec 05, 1958
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