State v. Nemier

WADE, Justice.

On July 4, 1943, while a program was being given in the state prison, Pat McLaughlin and the defendants Standard and Nemier, all inmates thereof, armed themselves with knives and attacked the prison guards. Obtaining the upperhand they threatened to kill the guards unless they gave up their guns, together with the keys to the armory and to an automobile standing in the prison yard and opened the outside gate. The guards complied with their demand and the three inmates with guns and ammunition made their escape with the automobile. A general alarm was sent out and some Salt Lake…