CONVICTS TAKE CONTROL
MUTINY IN STATE PRISON THIRTEEN KILLED IN FIGHT QUANDARY OF THE WARDEN By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian Press Association. Received Oct. 4, 8.5 p.m. New York, Oct. 4. A thousand convicts in the overcrowded State penitentiary at Cannon City (Colorado), rioted and seized a dozen guards and ex-Senator Colgate, who was visiting the prison, as hostages, holding them in the captured prison arsenal. The convicts warned the warden that they would kill the hostages unless they were allowed their freedom, whereupon the warden refused. The prison hangman was murdered and the other hostages were in great danger. Four guards and from seven to nine convicts were killed. The warden’s stenographer summoned the aid of the militia and fire police departments, thousands of armed volunteers also assisting in an endeavour to obtain control but, due to the position of the hostages, the warden is unable to decide how to reply to the convicts’ threats.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1929, Page 9
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