PRISONERS RIOT
Hobart Jail Disturbance HOBART. September 25. Prisoners in tiie Hobart jail attacked warders ami damaged prison property during a demonstration. A warder was sent to hospital vith serious bead injuries and a prisoner with a shot wound in his leg. The disturbance was quelled without outside help. Many of the jail windows were broken.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 1, 26 September 1939, Page 5
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