MUTONOUS PAISONER.

Otago Witness, Issue 3005, 18 October 1911, Page 6

MUTONOUS PAISONER.

ADDITIONAL SENTENCES. AUCKLAND, October 11. At the Police Court to-day a big strapping young man named Frederick Logan, handcuffed and in prison garb, appeared before Mr E. C. Cutten', S.M., on a charge of having, on September 27, assaulted i'.t Mount Eden Gaol, Warder R. W. Thompson, and having incited other prisoners to mutiny by calling on them to come to his assistance. -'""

Warder Thompson stated that on September 27 he was in charge of a party of prisoners in the stone-cutting yard, and Logan was one of the party. Prisoner asked leave to retire, and was granted it. j When witness turned round he saw Logan leaving the yard-with a hospital party of prisoners who were going to see the dispenser. Witness called him back, and remonstrated with him for leaving the yard without permission. Logan said in a I threatening manner, " This is dirt on your part." Witness told him to put on his coat, as he intended to lock him up. He refused, and picking up a wooden straightedge threatened to knock witness's head ; off, and witness walked up to him and ho | struck witness on the shoulder and arm ! with the straight-edge. Witness closed with him, and pulled him away. Prisoner broke away and struck at witness's head with the stick, and was knocked down by witness with a baton, hitting the prisoner on the side of the head. While being removed from tho. yard Logan shouted to the other prisoners to help him to " deal with' % witness, and used obscene language. Warders Johnston and Campbell came to witness's assistance, and on being let up Logan kicked viciously afc witness. He called the other prisoners who did not go to help him a cowardly lot. In answer to questions by the accused, witness said that he did not remember asking another warder about prisoner's work. He found fault with his work, bat did not brandish his baton in Logan's face and say he would, teach him to carry complaints to the gaoler. Prisoner's work was unsatisfactory. Witness could not say why jthe prisoners were continually going to tho gaoler and reporting him. Warder Johnston also gave similar evidence.

Warder Donovan deposed to overhearing a conversation in the penial cells between Logan and another prisoner named Smith, in which Smith advised Logan to call as evidence for him in the inquiry any prisoner that had been reported by Warder Thompson, and mentioned Murphy and King as reliable men. Accused's defence was that Warder Thompson was continually annoying, tantalising, threatening, and finding fault with "him and his work. He had applied to the gaoler to be removed from the charge of Thompson, but the application had been refused. He had also complained that he had not been permitted to see the visiting justices. The magistrate convicted accused, and sentenced him to an additional six months' imprisonmnent, and also ordered him to be placed on bread and water for seven days. The accused was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in February last for an. assault upon another warder. His original sentence is one of four years for theft.