Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1929, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. . MONDAY. DECEMBER -16. 199, AUBURN T0 RESUME ITS ROUTINE TOGAY Veteran Guard Dies and Acting Warden Takes Charge of Prison, Br the Associated Press. AUBURN, N. Y., December 16—The death of John H. Martin, assistant principal keeper at Auburn Stats Prison, | and the announcement of Dr. Frank L. | Christian, acting warden, that regular | routine would be resumed today, were | yesterday's developments at the institu- tion where nine were killed in Wedunes- | day’s rioting. Martin suffered a stroke of apoplexy | while on duty Saturday. He ved | the State for nearly 40 ye nd it | was believed the strain of riots haztencd his death. Martin at Auburn when the State installed first clectric chair and it was he who led #ll its vietims to their fate. He leaves a widow and daughter “uvps Open Today. The shops n operation prior to Wedncsday's fiare-up will be Teopened today, Dr. Chwistin said, and meals | again’ will be served in the mess hall | instead of cells. The convicts will be permitted to exercise in the yard, under surveillance of State troopers, who will command the walls, and prison guards, who will be in the inclosure. Dr. Christian, who replaced Warden | Edgar S. Jennings, incapacitated in the | viot, had what he cescribed as a “heart- | to-heart” talk with prison guards ves- terday. Afterward he annofhced that | for the prcsent no visitors would be | allowed the convicts and _that the Mutual Welfare League's affairs were suspended temnorarily. Victims of Circumstances, “We will not cut off the privileges of well conducted prisoners,” said Dr. Christian. “The majority of the men | in prison had nothing to do with the riot and were victims of unhappy cireumstances.” District Attorney Ben Kenyon said all convicts involved in the mutiny had been identified and that he believed sufficient evidence had been uncovered o0 justify indictment and trial on charges of murder, first degree. growing out of the death of Principal Keeper George A. Durnford SHERIFF SPIRITS DEATH SUSPECT AWAY FROM MOB | Colored Man Is Held in Probe of Slaying of Mississippi Democratie Leader. By the Associated Press. LEXINGTON, Miss., December 16 With a crowd of men close on his heels, Sherift W. L. Ellis and 2 squad of depu- ties eardy ‘yesterday escaped with Sammy | Pace, colored, suspected of the slaying | of Noel C. White, farmer and chairman of the Mississippi State Democratic executive committee, whose body wa: found in a ditch near one of his farms Saturday. | Pace was arrested in his cabin on White's farm after bloodhounds had led & posse of a thousand men to his home and stood outside the door baying. A. L. White of Clarkedale, deputy sheriff, owner of the dogs, sald his heunds went straight to the cabin and pai® no attention to a colored woman who answered the door, but bristled and barked when Pace appeared. Officers sald Pace could not give a satfsfactory account of himself and he was stolen away from the crowd and secreted in an_upannounced jail. | White was killed Saturday on the edge of a_timber tract on one of his farms, Officlals believe he was slain when he protested the cutting of timber by fenants. He was shot and his body | thrown in a ditch. Revive Indian Ball Games. 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