Warden killed
NZPA-Reuter Huntsville, Texas The. warden of what is considered to be the toughest prison in Texas was drowned yesterday by an inmate who also shot and killed a prison guard before he was captured. The warden. Wallace Pack, aged 54, had been in charge of the maximum-security prison and its 3000 inmates for just 20 days, following the retirement of the former warden. A prison official said the
inmate, whose name was withheld, apparently shot the guard. Billy Max: Moore, while he and Mr Pack went to a prison farm where the inmate was reported to have been smoking marijuana. The officials said the prisoner grabbed a pistol in the glove compartment of Mr Pack's car and shot Mr Moore in the head. He then drowned the warden in a ditch containing about one metre of water before he was captured by guards, the officials said, '
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Press, 6 April 1981, Page 8
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