BOSTON PRISON MUTINY
GUARDS HELD AS HOSTAGES
(Rec. 7 p.m.) BOSTON, January 19. Four armed convicts who yesterday seized five guards and six other prisoners and then demanded a car to enable them to escape from the Massachusetts State Prison are still holding their hostages. Theodore Green, aged 39, the ringleader, who last night sent out a message that the hostages will be killed if the authorities fired one shot, later spoke to his daughter, Toby, aged 16, by telephone. The _ “Boston Post” published a transcript of the conversation and quotes Green as saying: “I have to have my freedom and get all that money that I put away and I have to, got it for you and ma and the
The “Boston Post” says that Green, a notorious bank robber, rejected his daughter’s pleas to release the hostages. Police, backed by a 30-ton tank, dug in at the prison today in an effort to starve out the convict mutineers.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27563, 21 January 1955, Page 11
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