AMERICAN NEWS
. • .3" Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.)
ASSAULT ON PRISON. NEW YORK, Nov. 24
A message from Sacramento says that an army of several hundred men is mobilising outside Fulsome State Prison for an organised assault on the barricaded position. Seven leaders attempted to release twelve hundred prisoners, hut escape was frustrated within the walls in a. battle, in which, an assistant turnkey was killed and three guards seriously wounded. The leaders, armed with guns find knives, barricaded the doors of tile main cell block and took a position of vantage in the hospital, directly above the entrance to the block where twelve hundred prisoners are at large. Two hundred and fifty National Guards and a hundred police left the city for the prison, where they will attack with light field artillery, machine guns and grenades, if the leaders refuse to surrender. NEW YORK. Nov. 24. Sacramento reports that seven men arc now dead, and twenty-two wounded in the Folsom State Prison uprising. To-night settled down into a bitter siege of the revolting convicts by over five hundred militiamen, deputy sheriffs and other officers. Two guards and five convicts were killed. Seventeen convicts and police officers ami the warden’s secretary were wounded. Warden Smith, who for a time was isolated in his offiie, which, to leave, he had to run the gauntlet of marauding convicts, directed operations against the rioters over a telephone. and finally succeeded m quitting the prison without being seen by tho prisoners.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19271126.2.21
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1927, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
247AMERICAN NEWS Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1927, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in