Convicts Bum A Gaol
BATTLE ON AN ISLAND. Panic seized Venice at eleven o’clock on the niglit of July 17, when the new prison on Giudecca Island was seen to bo in flames. Sounds of shouts and revolver shots carried across the quiet lagoon added to the confusion. The fire is stated to have been started by tho convicts. With wild cries the prisoners attacked the warders in an attempt to escape. Sonic got as far as the shore, and threw themselves into the lagoon, but were dragged back.
After a struggle, the military guards, reinforced by troops from tho mainland, managed to get the rioters into a large square and guard them with bayonets and revolvers until daybreak, when they were removed to the mainland. Tho tiro was well' in hand by four o’clock, but the prison was a wreck.
The preliminary investigations suggested that the convicts plotted to set the building alight as a protest against the iron discipline to which, they say, they have been subjected.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 211, 4 September 1934, Page 5
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