LUNATICS MUTINY
ESCAPE FROM GAOL.
A TOWN TERRORISED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, July 23. According to a message from Chester (Illinois) armed posses recaptured all but eleven of twenty-six insane criminals. many of whom are murderers, who escaped ‘from the Illinois Criminal Insane Hospital. Two guards were stabbed and one maniac was shot dead in the battle proceeding the escape. Seventy-five inmates were in an open air cage' for exercise, when they attacked the guards and wrenched the bars apart with wooden benches. Other guards who rushed to the scene prevented wholesale escapes, but twentysix eluded pursuit overnight, causing a panic in the surrounding neighbourhood, all the houses being barricaded.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 July 1923, Page 5
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