CONVICT SLAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1931, Page 3

CONVICT SLAIN

e I MURDERED IN PRISON. SING SING .SENSATION. This third murder in Sing Sing prison within two'years was committed when Frank Doyle, 22 years old, who had been serving a sentence of from 20 to 30 years for assault and robbery in Queens County, was stabbed to death by another convict. In each previous instance the weapon used was a knife. Warden Lewis E. Lawes announced that the guilty prisoner was b<azio (Janorino, aged 21, who is serving a term for robbery committed irl Manhattan. He was placed in solitary confinement after having confessed to the murder of Doyle, Warden Lawes said. Doyle- was a' member of the company employed in the Sing Sing domestic building, where the “bakery, ibe plant, kitchen, and other departments for the preparation of food are! located. After the company had breakfasted the men went to the basement to don working clothes. .Shortly thereafter 'Keeper Arthur Meade found Doyle lying at the foot oT the stairs. He had been stabbed twice above the heart. The prisoner died in the prison hospital five minutes later, without naming his assailant, although he had been conscious to. the end. A search resulted in the discovery of blood-stained clothing belonging to Canorino, Warden Lawes said, as well as two knives, one,'of them blood-stained. They were at the bottom of a manhole covered by a grating. One knife had been taken from a prison dining table, and the other from the kitchen. Canorino, who was employed as a waiter, told the prison authorities that twice recently Doyle had demanded second portions of food from him, and had become angry when they were refused. On the morning of the stabbing, Canorino is quoted . as saying, Doyle was waiting for him at the foot of the stairs with a knife in his hand. Canorino was reported to-have admitted that he carried adsnife, and to have said that he struck out with,, it W self-defence. Harry Lipschitz- is- awaiting execution, in Sing Sing for the killing of Joseph Ivlu lie, one of the two other prisoners murdered. The third was-'Reuben Kaminsky, 17 years old,, of Brooklyn.