CONVICTS SHOT DEAD
BOLD DASH I OR FREEDOM Manila, Oct. 22. Four convicts were shot dead and six were seriously wounded when 14 members of a chain gang escaped and engaged in a gun battle with their guards. Four of the men are still at large and a man-hunt is in progress. One member of the chain gang clubbed his guard inside a hut and wrested his gun from him. The cartridges luckily had just been removed from the rifle. The convicts escaped to a scrub area, over which the guards kept watch. When the men made a dash under the cover of darkness the guards opened fire.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 27 October 1941, Page 6
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108CONVICTS SHOT DEAD Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 27 October 1941, Page 6
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