WARDERS ATTACKED BY PRISONERS
More Trouble At Bathurst Jail SYDNEY, January 12. Prisoners at the Bathurst jail made five separate attacks op the warders on Tuesday and Wednesday, as a result of which all the officers are kept on duty and the night guard has been strengthened. Mr. Scobie, S.M., will hold an inquiry into the unrest among the prisoners, which became manifest in November.
A cablegram received from Sydney on November 25 statedA disturbance among prisoners in the tailoring shop at Bathurst Jail, said to be the most serious that has ever occurred at the jail, resulted in 30 machines being smashed, the damage being estimated at £lOOO. The trouble, which was preceded by a fight between two prisoners,, was quelled bv the governor threatening to call in the police. After the fight between the two men, the remainder of the prisoners resumed work, but later one man picked up a hammer and smashed the head of the sewing machine he was operating, and other prisoners immediately set about wrecking their machines.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 9
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