WHOLESALE MURDER PLOT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8597, 21 May 1924, Page 5

WHOLESALE MURDER PLOT

PLANNED Itf BATHUBST GAOL. Press Assoc. By Tel. Copyright A vet. ;im! N.Z. C able Assoc. Bee May -I, 8.5 a.in. Sydney, May 80 It is muTic.iai ly stated that the riot nt the Bathurst gar-1 was a camouflaged pict; for the wholesale* murder cl wardois and the 1 ;seratio u of three hundred prisoners. The authorities are state;] to possess proof that n dozen of the most: desperate convicts, undergoing life v, ntences, carefully planned escape from gaol and that the drastic actual of the warders in using tloir bayonets and batons in di-per dug tlie prisoners averted a scene of carnage and probably saved Bath' vast from being over-rurf by n mob of desperate criminals. Apparently the first move was made < n Thursday, when a convict, according t< plan, provoked a warder and then made a complaint of id-treat-ment. This was designed to cause friction and genet al discontent. On Friday talk of a strike was ro become general and the strike was arranged for Saturday. It was intended, during the anticipated confusion and wild scenes, for the prisoners tc convey to the cells ail implements which could be used as teds cr weapons, also a quantity of inflammable material. During the night certain prisoners were to break out of their cells, release Die oilier prisoners, set the gaol on tire, and escape over the walls.