PRISONER IN COMMAND
' ON GAOL ROOF WITH AN AXE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. June 16, v 9 p.m.) Fremantle, June 16. A man named Tyler (an ex-corporal of police, who was undergoing a sentence of ten years' imprisonment for an assault some years ago on the chief of police) created a sensation here by securing an axe and climbing on to the roof of tho prison hospital, where he was acting as an orderly. He kept the staff of warders at bay for three hours, until the superm? tendent of the prison persuaded him to descend, Tyler's action was taken as a protest against what he considered au unjust sentence.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 845, 17 June 1910, Page 5
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110PRISONER IN COMMAND Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 845, 17 June 1910, Page 5
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