A RECALCITRANT "KING."

Northern Advocate, 18 February 1911, Page 2

A RECALCITRANT "KING."

I'EXTRIDGE NEGRO TROUBLESOME

WARDERS SAVED BY PRISONERS. MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The nef.ro prisoner King, whose frequent outbreaks of violence in Pentridge prison p.re the cause of great anxiety to the gaol authorities was on Wednesday brought before the visiting magistrate on a charge of insubordination.

King last Friday quavrelled with a fellow-prisoner, and used a knife. When arrested by Warder Schraedei , he attacked that officer with the knife and with a piece of red gum quartering, and had it not been for the intervention of other prisoners, who went to the warder's assistance, he would have probably inflicted serious injury upon Schraeder.

When brought before the magistrate King said he did not care how he was punished, as he would "get even with li-e warder afterwards." The knife used by King was about a foot long, and tapered like a dagger. It was ground to a sharp edge and a fine point. The

hand end was rounded, and wound "with string to prevent it slipping. When the prisoners rushed to Warder Scliraeder's assistance King threatened to "rip them up" if they interfered, but one hit him in the stomach with a piece of quartering that he (King) had wielded, while another man seized him by the wrist and wrenched the Knife away from him, and with the asoitance of Warder Peach overcame the fvenzied negro, who was then secured aiid put in his cell.

There is no doubt that the assistance rendered the warders by the prisoners prevented a serious crime at the bands of King. King has openly boastrd thet he will "walk the gallows" before March next.

King, after some evidence was taken, was remanded for a week.