A SUSPICIOUS FIRE
IN A PRISON WORKROOM. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright MELBOURNE, September 10. A number of prisoners were left alone for ten minutes in a flax room. When the warder returned he found tho room on fire. The prisoners willingly assisted to suhdue the flames, but the flax-making machinery was destroyed. It is believed the prisoners caused the fire through resentment at being made to work at such a _ profitable industry without remuneration.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6311, 11 September 1907, Page 5
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