BACKS TO THE WALL.
BATTLE WITH CONVICTS,
FOUR HUNDRED RUSH GUARDS.
(Received 11 a.m.)
NEW YORK, July 24. A telegram from Napa nock, New York, st-atcs that, led by a giant negro, •400 rioting convicts attacked 15 unarmed guards in the moss hnll of the institution for defective delinquents during, the supper hour. One inmate and a guard wort! killed and seven guards seriously injured. The guards grouped in a comer with their backs to the wall and fought for their lives against the surging wave of enraged men, who hurled stoolS and crockery. The guards were saved from the overwhelming rush when the superintendent ran into the luvll with a revolver and subdued the negro who started the trouble.
Thirty murderers and other violent criminals were among the convicts, who for several weeks have been grumbling on the grounds of insufficient recreation. —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 26 July 1923, Page 5
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