U.S.A. GAOL MUTINIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 September 1931, Page 7

U.S.A. GAOL MUTINIES

CONVICTS USE BOMBS

SEVERAL KILLED AND INJURED

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NEW YORK, September 9.

At Salt Lake City, one convict'was killed, one guard was fatally wounded, and four others, including the Gaol Warden, were injured during an outbreak to-day in the Utah State Penitentiary.

Convicts used prison-made bombs and knives in an attempt to gain their freedom. Great confusion attended the riot, in which the, DeputyWarden was, for a time, held prisoner by the convicts. He was released by the Warden, who then directed the guards to fire at the cell houses in order to prevent the convicts from getting into the prison yard. Ultimately order was restored. POLICE CHIEFS SHOT .. . NEW. YORK,. September 9. Two extraordinary shootings in different parts of the country occurred yesterday, and to-day. In each case they involved the death of a Chief of Police. . At Bernardsville (New Jersey) Chief Police Charles'Cavanaugh was brought out of his house by a fire‘in a neighbour’s home and he was then shot. from an ambush. The Police Chief had been actively wai-ring against the sly grog shops and the, bootleggers. The act is believed to have been dictated by revenge. At Hartford (Alabama) Chief Police Roady, and an ex-Mayor J. Radford, shot each othei* to death in a quarrel over the use of a road-making machine, before the ex-Mayor’s home.

SIX PERSONS KILLED. NEW YORK, September 3. Two prison officials and four prisoners- are dead as the result of a battle in the Marquette gaol, Milwaukee. Four life-term murderers planned to escape. They killed Dr Hornbogen, and a fingerprint expert, but guards blocked their way at the outer gates. The prisoners were driven behind a barricade. For two hours shots were exchanged. Riots developed in other parts of the prison. When the firing ceased it was found that the four prisoners had committed suicide.

ANOTHER DESPERATE AFFAIR.

MONTREAL, August 27.

Staking their lives on the chance of freedom, four desperate prisoners today tried to shoot their way out of the ( prison at Marquette, Michigan. They killed- the prison physician, wounded two guards, and then, when surrounded and facing capture, ended their own lives. Quiet was restored within two hours of the start of the fighting, and prison officials said that there was no danger of a concerted outbreak.

It is not known how the prisoners obtained weapons, but aftei’ reaching the prison hospital, -where they were sent on a plea of illness, they began to shoot. After killing the physician and wounding guards, they rushed to the factory building, where they barricaded themselves, firing upon the guards and State troops, who immediately surrounded the structure. Blinded by gas Jjombs and knowing that capture was imminent, the prisoners turned their weapons upon themselves.

It is reported that an armoured car was waiting outside the prison to receive the convicts once they passed the walls.