ATTEMPTED GAOL BREAK
A SENSATIONAL EFFORT ARMS FOR PRISONERS (I'.lec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) NEW YORK, April 19. At Providence, Rhode Island, one of the most sensational efforts at gaol breaking, in which two gangsters who drove into the State prison courtyard in mi automobile loaded with arms and ammunition and began the distribution of guns to the convicts, resulted in the death of two prisoners, the fatal wounding of a guard and injury to three prisoners. The gangsters, who made their appearance in an unexplained manner, shot their way out and disappeared. One of the prisoners committed suicide with a pistol when his efforts at escape became futile. The State police and prison attaches succeeded in driving the convicts back into their cells. An attempt to shoot a warder failed whoa a pistol failed to tire. His little daughter had passed through the yard before the shooting had begun.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17239, 21 April 1930, Page 7
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150ATTEMPTED GAOL BREAK Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17239, 21 April 1930, Page 7
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