WARDER ASSAULTED
STRUCK WITH CELL BROOM
PRISONER PLACED ON BREAD AND WATER
PA NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 23. Kenneth Frank Furze, who was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment at New Plymouth on Tuesday for being idle and disorderly, marked his first day in gaol by assaulting a warder. For this he was to-day sentenced to be kept on bread and water for 10 days. It was stated by officials that the sentence cannot be for 10 days consecutively, as the 'regulations provide that such sentences cannot be for more than three days in succession. After his admission to prison, Furze was told to hurry up and change. He was heard to say to Deputy Chief Warder King: “If you come back here I’ll split your skull-” He later attacked King with a cell hand broom. When King later went to the cell and before he could get the key out of the lock Furze rushed at him and hit him over the head with the cell hand broom-
Furze declared that the warder rushed at him, and he struck in selfdefence. He complained that he was ordered to go to work, and was not well. Furze mumbled the same general complaint about prison brutality, but the magistrate said that if he behaved himself he would find the prison officials friendly and helpful.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26963, 24 December 1948, Page 8
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WARDER ASSAULTED
Otago Daily Times, Issue 26963, 24 December 1948, Page 8
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