GLASGOW PRISON MUTINY
DEMAND FOR TOBACCO. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, December 23. The “News of the World” states that, forty prisoners working in the stoneyard at Barliunie Gaol, Glasgow, downed tools and dashed to a shed where 150 were working. They shouted: “Come on boys. Now’s your chance.” The short-timers were unmoved, but about twenty long-term prisoners joined the forty, and dashed to a store where tobacco and cigarettes are kept. Here they were confronted by a solitary warder, who parleyed, pretending the affair was a 'joke. Eventually, he opened the store and handed out a few cigarettes and a quantity of tobacco. Meanwhile, warders removed the other prisoners to their cells, then descended in force upon the raiders, overpowering them. Pandemonium in ihe cells lasted nightlong.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 December 1934, Page 2
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