PRISON RIOT RENEWED
DEMAND FOR TOBACCO , ’! ,i TEN SENT. TO HOSPITAL [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN.—OOPYBIGHT.] (Recd. December 27, 11 a.m.) LONDON, December 26. Renewed fighting in Barlinnie Gaol. Glasgow, occurred on Christmas Day, resulting in four warders and six prisoners being treated in the prison hospital. Warders from the surrounding gaols were rushed to Barlinnie to re-, lieve the local men, who had been on duty night and day since the original trouble, which was due to longsentence men seeing the remanded prisoners were allowed to smoke, becoming incensed when refused a daily cigarette. The ringleaders were locked in segregated cells, and when not allowed to exerice on Christmas Day, they tore pieces of wood from the beds, and smashed the cell windows. Sympathisers among the exercising prisoners, when marched in the vicinity of a verandah siirrouding the ringleaders’ cells, attacked the warders. A general melee followed. An official inquiry is certain.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 December 1934, Page 5
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