CONVICTS’ METHODS
MURDER COMMITTED. DRAWING ATTENTION TO GRIEVANCES. EXTRAORDINARY CASE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Rccoived April 7, 11.5 a.m. CAIRO, April 6. An extraordinary case of convicts committing one murder and attempting another for the purpose of drawing attention to their alleged illtreatment in prison occurred when a lorry was carrying 100 convicts to the Delta goal. Pandemonium reigned in the street when three prisoners cut the throat of a companion. The bystanders’ horror was increased when, in the ensuing confusion, a number of manacled convicts succeeded in scrambling to the roadway, *and in the subsequent melee a guard was severely slashed in the face.
The three assailants used a knife, which hail by prearrangement been concealed in a loaf handed to them as the lorry passed the railway station. They were en route to gaol after examination in Cairo in connection with tho murder of a fellow convict in gaol in order to draw attention to certain alleged grievances.—-Reuter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 108, 7 April 1926, Page 7
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