RIOT IN PRISON
THE MILITARY CALLED OUT. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) KINGSTON, (Ontario), October 17. The military wa<j called out to aid the guards in quelling more than eight hundred convicts, in the most serious riot in the history of the Portsmouth penitentiary here on Monday. Two of the convicts were injured. The military were withdrawn after two hours. A demand for cigarette papers and for longer hours of recreation precipitated the outbreak. ÜBJ—MBCT——
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1932, Page 5
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76RIOT IN PRISON Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1932, Page 5
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