RIOT IN A PRISON.
CRIMINALS RUSH MAIN GATE. SEVEN KILLED BY GUARDS. Dy Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. Calcutta, June 16. Advices received in Lahore state that 350 habitual criminals imprisoned in tho gaol at Fatehargh, a town in the North-West Provinces, attempted to storm the main gate. Ignoring warnings, they showered brick-bats on the guards, who volleysd, checking the rioters. Two further dangerous, rushes were met by fresh volleys. Seven rioters .were killed and fifty wounded. . . . [Fatehargh is a town and cantonment on the Ganges Eivor, seventy miles south of Bareilly. In 1857 nearly the entire European population, upwards of 200, wero killed during the ilutinyj
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 5
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104RIOT IN A PRISON. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 5
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