DISTURBANCE IN GAOL
WAVE OF DESTRUCTION FOLLOWS FIGHT PRISONERS IN TAILORING SHOP Press Association—By Telegraph—Coyprighl SYDNEY, November 25. (Received November 26, at 12.30 p.m.) A disturbance among the prisoners in the tailoring shop at the Bathurst gaol, said to be the most serious that has ever occurred at the gaol, resulted in 30 machines being smashed. The damage is estimated at £I,OOO. 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 a sewing machine he was operating. Other prisoners immediately set about wrecking their machines.
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Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 10
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125DISTURBANCE IN GAOL Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 10
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