MURDER BY CONVICTS.
. ▼ FOUR WARDERS KILLED. A RUSSIAN GAOL TRAGEDY. Uy Tclecraph-Press Association—Copyrlehl. Moscow, February 5. A convict pretending that he required material for the work in which ho was engaged shot a warder with a revolver. Two other warders rushed at the convict, who killed them both. Arming themselves,with tho revolvers of the dead warders, two moro convicts joined tho murderer, and, after barricading themselves in a store-room, killed a fourth warder and dangerously wounded a fifth, Tho military was summoned and surrounded tho place and tho convicts eventually surrendered.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1045, 7 February 1911, Page 5
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