GAOL DISTURBANCE
PRISONERS WRECK MACHINES IN TAILORING SHOP fU.P.A.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! .Received 25th November, 11.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A disturbance among prisoners in the tailoring shop at Bathurst Gaol, said to be the most serious that has ever occurred at the gaol, resulting in thirty machines being smashed, the damage being estimated at £IOOO. The trouble, which was preceded by a fight between two prisoners, was quelled by the governor threatening to call in the police. After the fight between the two men the remainder of the prisoners resumed work, but later one man picked up a hammer and smashed the head of a sewing machine which he was operating. The other prisoners immediately set about wrecking their machines.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 November 1938, Page 6
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