MUTINOUS CONVICTS.
PANDEMONIUM AT DARTMOOR A TERRIFYING UPROAR. LONDON, Feb. 21, In spite of elaborate precautions at Dartmoor prison, pandemonium reigned on Saturday night in the notorious Block D, where there are 70 mutineers in solitary confinement. Yells, curses and stamping terrified the inhabitants of Princctown, who declared that the sound was like that of wild animals.
The strain of keeping order is affecting the health of the warders.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21114, 23 February 1932, Page 9
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69MUTINOUS CONVICTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21114, 23 February 1932, Page 9
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