PRISON RIOTS.
AT SACRAMENTO. CONVICTS SURRENDER. NEW YORK, November 25. A message from Sacramento says that twelve hundred mutineer convicts at Folsom Prison who defied the National Guards and prison officials for twenty hours, surrend red peacefully and returned to the cells. Normal routine has been resumed.
The uprising caused nine deaths and twenty-two injured of which one guard was killed and another died from heart attack. Seven prisoners were slain by machine guns and five prison officials were wounded. •S'venteen convicts were struck l y machine gun bullets. The seven ringleaders of the outbreak have been placed in solitary confinement.
The convicts sent a messenger to s warder under a flag of truce asking for immunity which he refused, but promised rioters protection from a beating at the hands of the guards.
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Grey River Argus, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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