MURDER BY PRISONERS
To DRAW ATTENTION TO (.ill EV ANDES ,f«y Elect ric Telegraph.-- Copyright. i iKeuter's Telegram*! CAIRO. April 6 An extraordinary ease of convicts "■ i,'mint l i i.g one murder and attempting lor the purpose of drawing ;it,i ut ion to tin u alii ged ill-troattiieni in prison, occurred when a lorry was carrying 100 convicts to the Delta gaol. Ihi ndeinoni urn reigned in the streets when three prisoners cut the throat of a companion. '1 lie bystanders horror in ei eased win u in llu* ensuing confusion a number ol pinnacled lonviets succeed "i| m scrambling to the roadway, and in a subsequent melee the guard was severely slashed in the face. Three assailants used a knife which had been preatrangrdlv concealed in a loaf handed tin in as the lorry passed the railway station. Titov were on route to the gnoj after examination at Cairo in connection with the murder of a, fellow eon viol in I lie gaol ill order to draw alien t ion to certain alleged grievances.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 April 1926, Page 5
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