PRISON RIOT
OUTBREAK IN CANADA. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) WINN 1 PEC, April 18. One convict was killed and two others were wounded in a prison roe at the Stoney Mountain Penitentiary. Thomas Jones and William Cordon, two lank robbers, attacked two guards in the prison yard with stone hammers. The guards lired, wounding both. One bullet ricocheted, killing Mike Biliun, an auto thief, who was taking no part in the riot.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1932, Page 5
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74PRISON RIOT Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1932, Page 5
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