BATHURST PRISONERS WRECK MACHINES
DISTURBANCE IN TAILORING SHOP SYDNEY, November ’25. A disturbance among the prisoners in the tailoring shop at the Bathurst gaol, said to be the most serious that has ever occurred at the gaol, resulted in' 30 machines being smashed. The damage is estimated at £lOOO. The trouble, which was preceded by a fight between two prisoners, was quelled by the governor threatening to call in the police. After the fight between the two men the remainder of the prisoners resumed work, but later one man picked up a hammer and smashed the head of the sewing machine he was operating. The other prisoners immediately set about wrecking their machines.
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Southland Times, Issue 23676, 26 November 1938, Page 7
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113BATHURST PRISONERS WRECK MACHINES Southland Times, Issue 23676, 26 November 1938, Page 7
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