Mass Break By Prisoners
SANJUAN (Puertorico), Oct. 28. Between eighty and 150 convicts shot their way to freedom from Rio Piedras penitentiary today, killing two guards and wounding four others. It was the biggest prison break in Puertorican history. The chief of police, Colonel Salvador Roig, immediately organised a mass police search for the fugitives. The break occurred during the prison’s visiting hour.
Later reports said 84 convicts escaped. More than 300 heavily armed police are scouring the country near the prison and had recaptured 16 prisoners late today. The prison authorities said the convicts killed one guard in the receiving hall for visitors, took his gun and keys and then dashed to the prison arsenal, where they seized more weapons and ammunition. They killed a second guard and’ wounded others as they swept out through the main gate.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 31 October 1950, Page 5
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