REBEL CONVICTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 306, 28 November 1927, Page 2

REBEL CONVICTS.

SURRENDER PEACEFULLY. NEW YORK, Nov. 24. A message from Sacramento says that at Folsom State prison seven leaders attempted to release 1200 prisoners; but the escape of the latter was frustrated within the walls in a battle in which the assistant turnkey was killed and three of the guard seriously wounded. The leaders, armed with guns and knives, barricaded the doors of the main cell block and took a position of vantage in the hospital directly above the entrance to . the block where 1200 prisoners were at large. . The convicts defied the national guard and the prison officials for 24 hours and then surrendered peacefully and returned to their cells. The normal routine has been resumed.

The uprising caused nine deaths and resulted in 22 being injured; one injured guard was later killed and another died from a heart attack. Seven prisoners were slain by machine gun and five prison officials were wounded. Seventeen convicts were struck by machine gun bullets The seven ringleaders of the outbreak have been placed in solitary confinement. The convicts sent a messenger to a warder under a flag of truce asking for immunity, which he refused, but he promised the rioters protection from a beating at the hands of the guards.—A. and N.Z. cable. Warder Smith, who for a time was isolated in his office, to -leave which he had to run the gauntlet of marauding convicts, directed operations against the rioters over the telephone and finally succeeded in quitting the prison without being seen by the prisoners.— A. and N.Z. cable.