CONVICTS ATTACK WARDERS.
STRUGGLE IN A TRAIN. (vsrrTEO mesa association—by bt-ecteio TELEGRAPH—COTVRIGHT.) LONDON, November 18. Four convicts en route to Dartmoor staged a thrilling fight with three warders on a train travelling at 50 miles an hour, outside Salisbury Two of the convicts prevailed upon the iva; tiers to undo tlu ir handcuffs, on the pretence that they wanted to go to a lavatory. When they reached tho corridor both turned and attacked tho warders. The others rushed out, and a general fight occurred in the corridor, to which the guard and a soldier passenger were attracted. The guard managed to drag one convict from a window when ho was about to leap The second leaped through a window, and was killed instantly, his body, frightfully mutilated, being found on tho line. , The three warders finally ■ overpowered the others.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20090, 20 November 1930, Page 11
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