CONVICTS BURN A GAOL
ITALIAN ISLAND BATTLE. VENICE, July 19. Panic seized Venice at 11 o’clock last night when the new prison on Giudecca Island was seen to be in flames. Sounds of shouts and revolver shots carried across the quiet lagoon added to the confusion. The fire was started by the convicts. AVith wild cries they attacked the warders in an attempt to escape. Some got as far as the shore, and threw themselves into the lagoon, but were dragged back. After a struggle the military guards, reinforced by troops from the mainland, got the rioters into a large square and held them there with bayonets and revolvers until daybreak, when they were removed to the mainland. The preliminary investigations suggest that the convicts plotted to set the building alight as a protest against the iron discipline to which, they say, they have been subjected. The prison was completely destroyed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 August 1934, Page 8
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