WARDER ATTACKED.
SERIOUS ASSAULT AT MOUNT
EDEN GAOL,
(Pee United Phess Association.)
AUCKLAND, December 23. Warder Anderson, who acted in the capacity of storekeeper at the Mount. Eden Gaol, was assaulted by two prisoners this morning and seriously wounded in several places on the head by blows from an iron bar.' Particulars of the assault are not yet .available, but it is understood that one of the prisoners concerned is a man who was recently transferred to the Mount Eden. Gaol from the Invercargill Reformatory Prison under sentence for assaulting a warder at the southern prison. The motive believed to have been a desire to obtain some keys which the warder carried, and which* the prisoners thought would open a way to escape. The two prisoners will probably come before the police court to-morrow.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15955, 24 December 1913, Page 5
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134WARDER ATTACKED. Otago Daily Times, Issue 15955, 24 December 1913, Page 5
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