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ATTEMPTS AT PRISON BREAKING FIERCE FIGHTS IN AMERICAN GAOLS Butted Press Association— By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, December 4. Two attempted prison escapes in widely separated parts ol the country were attended by the death of several persons, and hard-fought, pitched battles in the centre of two cities yesterday. One convict was killed and a civilian employee of the prison was bludgeoned to death. Three other convicts were wounded when five longterm convicts forced their way out of the Massachusetts State prison at Boston. All five fugitives were recaptured, dead or alive, within two hours, but only after a wild chase by hundreds of policemen, firemen, and prison guards armed with rifles, riot guns and tear gas bombs. Six prisoners, members of the notorious Irish O'Malley gang of bank robbers, escaped from the Federal gaol at Muskogee (Oklahoma). They critically wounded the chief of the detectives and fled in a commandeered car. One of the convicts, however, was fatally wounded by the prison guards.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20284, 6 December 1935, Page 13
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167BID FOR LIBERTY Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20284, 6 December 1935, Page 13
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