MINOR MUTINY IN GAOL
♦ RAID ON TOBACCO STORE CLEVER WARDER PREVENTS TROUBLE (Received December 24, 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 23. The "News of the World" says that 40 prisoners working in the stone yard at Barlinnie gaol, Glasgow, stopped work and dashed to a shed where 150 others were working, shouted "Come on, boys, now's your chance." Men with short sentences were unmoved, but about 20 long-term prisoners joined them, and they all dashed to a store where tobacco and cigarettes are kept. Here they were confronted by a solitary warder, who parleyed with them, pretending the affair was'a joke. Eventually he opened the store and handed out a few cigarettes and a quantity of tobacco. Meanwhile warders had removed the other prisoners to their cells, and then descended in force upon the raiders, overpowering them. There was pandemonium in the cells throughout the night.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21355, 24 December 1934, Page 13
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