PRISONERS FIGHT.
Serious Disturbance in Bathurst Gaol.
•EWING MACHINES WRECKED.
(Received 10.30 a.m.)
SYDNEY, this day
A disturbance among prisoners in the tailoring shop at Hathurst Gaol, said to be the most serious that ever occurred at the gaol, resulted in 30 machines being smashed. The damage is estimated at £1000.
Ihe trouble, which was preceded by • fight between two prisoners, was fuelled by the governor threatening to •all in the police. After the fight between the two men the remainder of the prisoners resumed work, but later one man picked up a hammer and smashed the head of the sewing machine he was operating, and other ' prisoners immediately set about Wrecking their machines.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 279, 25 November 1938, Page 7
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