GAOL DISTURBANCE
TROUBLE AT BATHURST
PRISONERS SMASH MACHINES
SEQUEL TO FIGHT
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.' (Received November 25, 11.40 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
A disturbance among prisoners in the tailoring shop at Bathurst Gaol, said to be the most serious that has ever occurred at the gaol, resulted in 30 machines being smashed, the damage being estimated at £1000.
The trouble, which was preceded by a fight between two prisoners, was .quelled by 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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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 127, 25 November 1938, Page 9
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122GAOL DISTURBANCE Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 127, 25 November 1938, Page 9
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