CONVICT SHIP MUTINY
FORTY MEN KILLED. [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] ALGIERS; December 7. Forty convicts are reported to have been killed as the result of the suppressing with steam jackets from the boilers, of a mutiny aboard the convict ship “La Martiniere,” which left Martin De Re on December 1, with 250 felons for Devil’s Island, including one matricide, and three other murderers. The vessel, after shipping 394 additional convicts at Algiers, resumed her voyage to Guiana. THE POLICE VERSION (Rec. December 9, 11.30 a.m.) ALGIERS, Decembei’ 8. The Chief of Police emphatically denies the reported mutiny and killing of forty convicts by jets of steam on the convict ship La Martiniere. He says that actually only one convict was dissatisfied with the food. He and two others threatened the ship’s doctor, but discipline was soon restored.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 December 1933, Page 7
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