CALCUTTA GAOL MUTINY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17460, 22 May 1922, Page 7

CALCUTTA GAOL MUTINY.

EVIDENCE AT ENQUIRY. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyri^kt.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) DELHI. May 19. Giving evidence at the Calcutta gaol mutiny, one witness Baid that the mutiny occurred through a warder kicking a convict who was praying. Two other in evidence, stated that this was a false accusation, manufactured with the object of"" intimidation of the gaol authorities, to let convicts have their own way: Apparently, until the arrival of non-co-operation prisoners, the convicts were dooile, but subsequently, the political prisoners got privileges and better food, and fold the ordinary convicts that by agitating and making the position of the gaol people intolerable, they would get better food. The political prisoners also were allowed to read extremist newspapers in prison, which were passed to ordinary criminals, inflaming them, and resulting in a hunger strike, which culminated in the mutiny. One witness said that convicts asked him to send an erroneous report to extremist papers regarding the kicking of a praying prisoner, and also of another being throttled to death secretly. . Another witness gave evidence that prisoners made weapons secretly for some time in the gaol workshop..