GAOL RIOT
DISTURBANCE IN HOBART
QUELLED'WITHOUT HELP FROM OUTSIDE.
WARDER INJURED & PRISONER SHOT IN LEG.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.
(Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) HOBART, This Day
Prisoners in the Hobart Gaol attacked and damaged prison property during a demonstration. A. warder was taken to hospital with serious head injuries. A prisoner was shot and wounded in the leg.
The disturbance was quelled without outside help. Many of the gaol windows were broken.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1939, Page 6
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