REFORMATORY RIOT
Boys Set Fire to ISuilding DAMAGE TOTAL £212,000 (Received 30, 10.40 a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 29. Farmers armed with clubs and shotguns hurried to aid the police when the 300 boys from a reformatory near Montpellier set fire to the huilding and attempted to eseape, Several of the boys and members of the staff, including tho director. were injured. Forty escaped, a doden eluding armed patrols. They are still hiding in the woods. Several of the escapces barelv escaped lynching by local residents. The damage is estimated at £212.000-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 191, 30 August 1937, Page 5
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