JAMAICAN STRIKES
KINGSTON DISORGANISED HANGMAN REFUSES TO WORK (Rec. 8 a.m.) KINGSTON (Jamaica), Feb. 21. The hangman at Kingston prison has joined the city-wide strike. Government employees yesterday "refused to officiate at the scheduled execution* of Pereival Bennett, a convicted niurJerer, whose sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when nobody was available to spring the trap. Meanwhile, a serious food shortage and communications paralysis threaten the city, as the result of the ivalk-out. A Canadian regiment is standing ready to take over essential services. Disorders continued at an insane asylum, where 35 of 100 inmates who escaped when the strike began on February 15, are believed still to be at large. •.
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Evening Star, Issue 25724, 22 February 1946, Page 5
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