PRISON SET ON FIRE
Austrian Convicts’ Action Venice, July 18. Memories of Dartmoor were recalled by a mutiny in the Judecca Prison. Twenty convicts, alleging treatment and severe discipline, chose the visit of the Minister of Justice as the occasion to set fire to the prison. They Ingeniously drilled a hole in the secondstory floor, through which they droplied lighted horsehair into the carpenter’s shop filled with jshavlngs. The main prison was completely gutted and there was intense panic among 370 other inmates, but warders and troops safely transferred them unharmed to a neighbouring jalL
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 251, 20 July 1934, Page 11
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95PRISON SET ON FIRE Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 251, 20 July 1934, Page 11
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