GAOL DISTURBANCE.
INCIDENT AT HOBART. Received September 25. 12.15 p.m. HOBART, Sept. 25. Prisoners in the Hobart Gaol attacked the warders and damaged prison property during a demonstration. A warder was taken to hospital with serious head injuries and a prisoner wms shot and wounded in a leg. The disturbance was quelled without outside help. Many of the gaol windows were broken.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 8
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62GAOL DISTURBANCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 8
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