REAL LIFE DRAMA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 26, 25 July 1911, Page 7

REAL LIFE DRAMA.

A PROSPECTOR'S STIiAXOE DKATIT. Vancouver. July 12. An extraordinary storv comes from Arizona. A man named Kingsley Olds, a prospector, lias been found sliot; dead in hi« prison cell, and the thrilling incidents attendant upon his death are published in the Arizona Cllolie. The murderer evidently gained access to the judge's chambers —which overlook the cell in which Olds was incarcerated —during the night-time, and making a hole in the window seheen, carefully rested a rifle there and pulled the trigger on the prisoner. Apparently only one. shot was fired, and this entered Old's shoulder, and went downward through his lungs. ! The. assailant escaped, leaving the rille . in the window. But the events preceding Olds' gaoling were peculiar. Tlis partner's two young daughters were recently drowned in the Salt river, and some cowboys, who were passing, found Olds with liis jaw shot away, and unable to talk. On a piece of paper he wrote that he was bathing with the girls r when Indians attacked the trio, and shot him in the fact. Nevertheless, Olds was arrested in the belief that he drowned the girls, and it is supposed that the real miscreant, in order to cover up his crime, has now committed another murder 'by getting rid of Olds.