PENITENTIARY FIRE
THE IRONY OF FATE, (United Frees Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, April 23. By some irony of fate all the prisoners awaiting execution In the death row escaped death in the Columbus firb. Twenty-three nqurderers serving sentences varying from 10 years to life were killed. The only prisoncy to escape from the prison yard during the excitement was Michael, who had been a burglar. He has not yet been recaptured.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21010, 26 April 1930, Page 13
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