GANG'S REVENGE.
MURDER IN SING SING. CONVICT STABBED DURING PARADE. . . Reuben Kaminsky, aged 17, and the youngest inmate of New York's famous prison, ijjing Sing, stood in the prison yard, huddling in the cold and doing his best to warm his chilled hands. Before and behind him stretched a long line of dull grey figures—convicts waiting to march back to their cells.
Suddenly he crumpled and fell, his hands clasped to his stomach and his face twisted in agony. Five vicious knife thrusts had cut deep into his face and chest, and in ten minutes he died without' recovering consciousness.
More than a dozen warders were present, but none saw the murder committed, though at least a hundred convicts must have. A mysterious feature of the case was that no knife was found, in spite of a rigorous search. Four convicts have been placed in solitary confinement by the Governor pending investigation. The murdered man was a member of the same gang as the four convicts, and it wa<s his evidence that secured their * coil viction. ___________
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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176GANG'S REVENGE. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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