PRISONERS REVOLT AGAINST GUARDS
Three Hours’ Fight in Court Yard
THREE KILLED AND TWO MORTALLY INJURED
[By Electric Gable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N,Z. Cable Association.] (Received Thursday, 7.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov 3. Three persons were killed and two mortally injured as a result of an attempt to deliver three prisoners from the Tombs, the historic city prison. Two hundred policemen, detectives, and prison guards, engaged in a fusillade from vantage points, on to prisoners trapped like rats within the prison yard. Five hundred spectators watched the bloodshed from the tall buildings which front three sides of the courtyard. The prisoners had announced that they must see the Warden regarding medical attention. They were taken from th cells and left in charge of one guard. They then produced guns demanding that the guard open the door and lot them out. The guard refused and cried out for aid. and the Warden arrived. The gunmen then opened (ire on the Warden and dashed into the yard, whore they held out for several hours against the fire of the police, taking refuge behind a pile of coal,' but finally the recalcitrants were brought down.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3497, 5 November 1926, Page 7
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