JOHN HUGHES
April 26, 1899

Prescott:  John Hughes died in the county jail last night as the 
result of being knocked down by a fellow prisoner. Hughes was 
awaiting the action of the Grand Jury on a charge of assault to 
commit murder on a man named Melloy at a railroad grading camp 
last fall. He has manifested a vicious disposition ever since 
his arrest assaulting Jailor Yeomans a few days ago.

Yesterday he attacked a fellow prisoner named Eagan, when the 
latter struck him with his fist, knocking him down. His head 
struck the cement floor of the jail, fracturing the skull at 
the base of the brain, causing death in a few hours.  A corner's 
jury exonerated Eagan.  Hughes boasted to the prisoners that 
he had killed two men and if taken into court he would never 
come out alive for he intended to kill all the men he could.

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