![]() ![]() The other was in connection with the Joynson case at the British Columbia Penitentiary in 1913. This was the first of only two capital executions to be carried out within a federal penitentiary in Canada. Barrett wrongly took this as "personal mistreatment."īarrett was sentenced to death for this brutal murder and was hanged within the Alberta Penitentiary compound on July 14, 1909. In fact, being a competent officer, each time that Barrett had voiced his request, Deputy Warden Stedman had told him to submit his name to the "sick list" as per the rules. Deputy Warden and Matron Stedman had lived in the penitentiary.Īpparently, the inmate held a grudge against the Deputy, claiming that he was barring him from seeing the penitentiary physician. The Deputy maintained consciousness long enough to note the time, and to ask for the Warden, and finally his wife, who was employed as Matron at the facility, before dying. Barrett approached the Deputy Warden from behind and struck him a fatal blow in the head with a hatchet. At this time, an inmate sentenced to life named Gary R. While making his routine rounds of the institution, Deputy Warden Henry Stedman stopped in the carpentry shop to speak to Instructor Pope about a job he was working on. The inmate who dropped the wheelbarrow was found not guilty the incident was considered an industrial accident. He died two hours later in the prison hospital. The impact fractured Cunningham's skull, rendering him unconscious. Cunningham who was supervising the laying of a window sill on the ground floor. ![]() It then dropped through a hatch in the scaffolding and crashed directly onto Mr. ![]() When the board shifted, the wheelbarrow counter-balanced and struck the edge of the scaffolding causing the inmate to lose his grip. As he did so, a plank on the scaffold sprang, causing a fatal chain-reaction. At the time, the former east industrial shop (now building B-11) was in the process of changing to a segregated cell-block, referred to as the "Prison of Isolation." High up on the third floor of the structure, an inmate had just unloaded a wheelbarrow full of bricks. Mason Instructor David Cunningham was killed in an accident during a reconstruction project at Kingston Penitentiary. 14, 1870, at the Frontenac County Gaol in Kingston. Smith got an additional 14 years and Mann was hanged on Dec. Not realizing that they had killed the officer, the two inmates bound Traill, placed a rolled up coat under his head, stole his firearm and uniform tunic, and escaped.Īfter an 11-day manhunt, they were caught by a group of farmers while hiding in a swampy part of Graham Lake north of Brockville. At that moment, another inmate, Daniel Mann, approached the officer from behind and clubbed him over the head with an ironwood sleigh stake, severing his carotid artery in the process. Once the quarry gang was out of sight, inmate John Smith distracted the officer by showing him some small bones that he had carved into ornaments. Reports say that, on this fatal day, Traill was sitting on a wheelbarrow just inside the door of the lime-house with his rifle across his lap. The inmates were keeping the fires burning in the lime kiln during the lunch hour, while the rest of the quarry gang was marched back to the penitentiary for their noon-time meal. He had been supervising two inmates on the outer penitentiary reserve. Within a year of joining the staff of Kingston Penitentiary, Guard Henry Traill was attacked and killed during an escape attempt. ![]()
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