RIOT OF CONVICTS.
SENSATION IN ILLINOIS
United Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable association. NEW YORK, June 5.
Eight hundred convicts rioted at Joliet. Illinois. Three companies of militia were called out. A score of convicts were injured, whereupon the convicts set fire to the buildings, of which five were partly destroyed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4579, 7 June 1917, Page 5
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