COLUMBUS CONVICTS RIOT
SEQUEL OF FIRE TRAGEDY
ARMED GUARDS QUELL MUTINY.
DECLARATION OF MARTIAL LAW.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
New York, April 29. The Ohio State penitentiary at Columbus, where 322 convicts were burned to death, was the scene of new violence today, when the guards, with sawed-off shotguns, fied upon unruly prisoners. Twenty convicts were reported to be wounded.
For a week the convicts have been in more or less open mutiny against the warden and the prison administration, trying to smash the cells as a protest against the manner in which the lockedup convicts were burned to death. Martial law was declared to-day, the warden surrendering command to military from a nearby army post.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1930, Page 11
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