TROUBLE IN A GAOL.
FREMANTLE, June 16. Tyler, an ex-corporal of police, who is undergoing a 10-years' sentence, secured an axe, and climbed the roof of the prison hospital, where he is acting as orderly, and kept, the staff of warders at bay for three hours until the superintendent of the prison persuaded him to descend. Tyler's action is taken as a protest against what he considered an unjustsentence.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 142, 17 June 1910, Page 5
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