UNRULY PRISONERS
TWENTY CONVICTS WOUNDED
[United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright,!
{Received this day at 9.41) a.m.) NEW YORK, April 29
A message from Columbus (Ohio) reports the State Penintentiary, where 322 convicts were burned to death recently, was the scene of flew violence to-day, when guards with sawed off shotguns fired upon unruly prisoncis. Twenty convicts are reported wounded. For a week the convicts have been in more or Jess open mutiny against the Warden and the Prison Administration trying to smash cells as a protest against the manner in which the locked up convicts were burned to death. "Martial law was declared to-day, the Warden surrendering command to the military from a nearby army post.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1930, Page 6
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117UNRULY PRISONERS Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1930, Page 6
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