Fractious Prisoners.

Manawatu Herald, 28 August 1902, Page 2

Fractious Prisoners.

DETERMINED ASSAULT oN|||| WABDERS. On Sunday afternoon-a determined ’s" attempt at serious violence Wat i ids .. by two prisoners in, the Lytteltc'i, Gaol—Joseph Mason Foggan, whowas concerned in a recent '’assault on £; a warder, and Herbert AUandale, who is undergoing a sentence of «■&,_ eleven years for robbery and for escaping from gaol at Wellington.’# ' $1 Shortly after i o'clock- AilandMe, & who had been in the library, went to - the orderly officers’ room, and asked Y the acting-principal warder (Man--ning) to accompany- him to the library, saying that so'mething there wanted ij and on' entering* th"e, ; ifoom was at. % j once seized by Ailandale and Foggas, $ *f who partly throttled him, and got ,*/■ possession of his keys. _ - Warder Parker, who was patrolling j near, hearing tbs noise in the library, went there, and the* prisoners tried to. • force him into the room. Failing in •*. 1 this, they rushed put, shutting tho j door, which has a spring lock. Foggan drew a knife, and roughly told Parker to show him to the north wing, a hero Warder Lodge was on duty, saying that he intended to kill Lodge. Parker blew his whistle for assist- - ■ 1 ance, and grappled with Foggan, trying to take the ■ knife from him. 1 ’’ The gaolei; (Cleary), who was in Mia office, ran to bia aid. and secured the knife. Warder Rafter also ran to help Parker, but AUandale grappled with him, and the two fell to tho , ground together. Meanwhile, Mart* - uing, who had been shut in the - library, had opened the door with his „ * knife, and appeared on. the scene. Cleary, having disarmed Foggan, ” went' to Rafter’s assistance, And pullGd Ailandale off, 4 The two prisoners, seeing that they ware overpowered, submitted to be locked up. and were ‘ confided in ’, separate cells. „ , - - / ' The knife, which Poggan bad don- V/ cealed in bis clothing, waß,J,t^ig v -• ,i posed, made 1$ him*in the workshop, in which -he was usually and where he could find material for doing so. It is of steel, and about nine inches in length and rather more , than half an inch in width, curved, ‘\ and with a sharp point and edge.’ The blade is fitted into the handle in ' a similar manner to that of d ‘ bradawl.