REVOLT IN PRISON

Evening Star, Issue 19724, 26 November 1927, Page 5

REVOLT IN PRISON

CONVICTS BARRICADE THEMSELVES IN BATTLE WITH GUARDS MILITARY AND POLICE CALLED OUT. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, November 21. A message from Sacramento says that an army of several hundred men is mobilising outside Folsom State Prison for an organised assault on a barricaded position. Seven of the leaders of the revolting convicts attempted to release 1,200 prisoners, but the escape was frustrate! within the walls in a battle in which the assistant turnkey was killed and three guards were seriously wounded. The leaders, aimed with guns and knives, barricaded the doors of the main cell block, and took a position of vantage in the hospital, directly above the entrance to the block where 1,200 prisoners are at large. A force of 250 National Guards" and 100 police left the city for ilie prison, which they will attack with light field artillery and machine guns and grenades if the leaders refuse to surrender.

STATE OF SIEGE. SEVEN MEN KILLED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, November 21. Sacramento reports that seven men are now dead and twenty-two wounded in tho Folsom State Prison uprising. To-night it lias settled down into a bitter siege of the revolting convicts by over 500 militiamen, deputy sheriffs, and. other officers. 'Two guards and live convicts have been killed, and seventeen convicts, , a police officer, and tho warden’s secretary wounded. Warden Smith, who for some time was isolated in his office, to leave which he had to mu tho gauntlet of tho marauding convicts, directed operations against the rioters over tho telephone, and finally succeeded in quitting tho prison without being scon by the prisoners. PE ACEFUL SURRENDER. TOTAL OF NINE DEATHS. NEW YORK. November 25. (Received November 2(3, at 9.3 D a.m.) A message from Sacramento says that 1.200 mutinous convicts at Folson Prison, who defied the National Guard and the prison officials for twenty hours, surrendered peacefully and returned to their cells. Tho normal routine lias been resumed. The uprising caused nine deaths and twenty-two injured, of which one guard was killed and another died from a heart attack. Seven prisoners were slain by machine gnu fire, and five prison officials were wounded. Seventeen convicts were struck by machine gun bullets. Tho seven ringleaders have been placed in solitary confinement. A convict sent a messenger to the warden under a Hag of truce, asking for immunity, which he refused, but promised the rioters protection from a beating at the hands of the guards.