CONVICTS MUTINY
FIRE DAMAGE TO PRISON. VENICE, Wednesday. Memories of Dartmoor were recalled by a mutiny in the Judecca Prison. Twenty convicts, alleging rough treatment and severe discipline, chose the visit of the Minister of Justice 'as the occasion to set fire to the prison. They ingeniously drilled a hole in the second storey floor, through which they dropped lighted horsehair into the carpenter’s shop filled with shavings. The main prison was completely gutted and there was intense panic amongst 370 other inmates, but warders and troops safely transferred them unharmed to a neighbouring gaol.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 July 1934, Page 5
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95CONVICTS MUTINY Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 July 1934, Page 5
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