CONVICTS RIOT.
ANOTHER AMERICAN ‘SENSATION. (A. and N. Z. Cable.) NEW YORK, July 24. A telegram from Napanock, New York, states that, led by a giant negro, 400 rioting convicts attacked 15 unarmed guards in the mess hall of an institution for defective delinquents during the supper hour. One inmate and a guard were killed and seven guards seriously injured. The guards were grouped in a corner with their backs to the wall and fought for their lives against a surging ’"ave of enraged men, who hurled”stools and crockery, but were saved from an overwhelming rush when the institution superintendent ran into the hall with a revolver and subdued the negro who started the trouble.
Thirty murderers and other violent criminals were among the convicts, who for several weeks had been grumbling on the grounds of insufficient recreation.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15886, 26 July 1923, Page 5
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