MUTINY IN GAOL
SEQUEL TO A SUICIDE. United Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, Jan. 26.
A mutinous scene, culminating in an attempt being made by between thirty find, forty convicts to mob Major Benke. acting-Goyernqr of Pen? lonviile, occurred in the prison chapel. The demonstration was the sequel to the suicide of a prisoner named Thornton, who had hanged himself in his cell after Governor Benke, as a 'mps'” ,}, e of discipline, had removed his mattress. >•£ the chapel when the .-in,. _ ing the warders, rushed Benke, shouting: “You murderer. You killed Thornton.” Pandemonium followed, the remainder of the convicts, yeliiug im* orecations, rushing at Benke, but the wdt’ders surrounded lum and held his assailants off till reinforcements cleared the chapel.—Sun.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11013, 28 January 1926, Page 5
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