MUTINOUS PRISONERS.
(Per Press Association.) Auckland, last night. Five prisoners at Mount Eden gaol, alleged to be concerned in the assault upon a warder for which William Cameron, a Gisborne prisoner, was dealt with at the Polioe Court on Saturday, were locked up separately on Saturday. They immediately commenced a disturbance so serious that crowds of people congregated outside the gaol" at intervals throughout the day. Each prisoner smashed a lantern, table," cleaning box, and the cell windows. Books' and pannikins were thrown out. One man who got his head through the window shouted to the prisoners exercising. “ Now is the time to start,” in consequence of which he will be charged with inciting the prisoners to mutiny. Vile languogo was wildly shouted from the cells, and the din caused by the banging of enamelware and I scraping of tins over the cell walls was kept up without cassation from 3 o’clock on Saturday afternoon till 3 o’clock on Sunday morning, when the men were removed to the basement cells. The five prisoners will be shortly charged before the Stipendiary Magistrate with damaging prison property and inciting prisoners to mutiny.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1409, 21 March 1905, Page 2
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190MUTINOUS PRISONERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1409, 21 March 1905, Page 2
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