A DARING PRISON PLOT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 215, 7 September 1912, Page 17

A DARING PRISON PLOT.

OtHWTCTS' BID FOB ÜBBBTX. ißnticnlar» of a daring and desperate plot (gainst the governor and warders of Usk Gaol toe just come to light. Three or (our coirricts are Implicated, and the plot iHM discovered through one of their nrante gfcrtng It away to the authorities. Four men, it is known, were appealing against fiiedr sentences, and were given similar privileges together, including the use of pen and Ink, which was subsequently Isiea from them. One, however, ingeniously made an inkpot of wax used in their »ark of making mail bags, and concealed <Se ink. Blank pages were taken out et library books, and passed to the conBjtetDTß hi ihynai books. The plan was torSstx developed in the exercise yard, wlere one of the men, visiting the lavatSJ, would write a message on paper intended far the next to read, the last man being instructed to flush it away. The to was to attack the first -warder who ertetea either of the ceils with the leg «t «W cell table, and capture his ward Sejs, the escaping prisoner to liberate his comrades.

<30V£ENOB TO BE CHAINED, Die warder In the lodge room was to be ""etpowercd, and the governor to be •balnea to the inside of the gates. It i» fxJfflrtood the plot was actually in writes;, and that copies were sent to the Home jksstarj. Hie men being astonished when ** evidence of one of their number v.-as Ponced against them. At the Visiting Recces' Inquiry two of the plotters— 'Wincfcrorth and Simmonds--who were $**& to have been In Gloucester prison "Men a similar plot resulted in the governor WBg locked in the cell, where sentenced severe dietary punishment and solitary "ttntnemmt for a period, and deprived of •■jyraaisslon of their sentence or other PMfcges for fntnre good behaviour. -ftjras also recommended to the Home ™**try that they should receive fifteen ™«* wifh the cat. -Wlnck-worth was in- ~® ea et tie assizes for forging a postal «** aid then violently assaulting in ««» one of the female witnesses. For the Bo? offence he had been committed to the J** Mslzea Simmonds, who at the time ™» a convict on leave, was sentenced to Terns , penal servitude for shooting at «*» Newport detective officers.