Melee in Prison
TEN MEN INJURED. ATTACK ON THE WARDERS. CELL WINDOWS SMASHED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Dec. 27, 10.15 a.m.) -LONDON, Dec. 20. There was renewed fighting in the Barlinnie gaol on Christmas Day, resulting in four warders and six prisoners being treated in the prison hospital. Warders from surrounding gaols were rushed to Barlinnie to relieve the local men, who had been on duty night and day since' the original trouble, which was due to longsentence men. On being remanded prisoners who had been allowed to smoke, were incensed when refused their daily cigarette. The ringleaders were locked In segregated cells, and when not allowed to exercise on Christmas Day tore pieces of wood from their beds and smashed the cell windows. Sympathisers among the exercising prisoners, when marched in the vicinity of the verandah surrounding the ringleaders’, cells, attacked the warders, and a general melee followed. An official inquiry is certain.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19460, 27 December 1934, Page 7
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