PRISONER ASSAULTS WARDER.
Auckland, Nov. 2S. A young Australian named Frank Logan, who is serving four years’ imprisonment in Auckland gaol for breaking and entering and thelt, was charged at the Police Court this morning with assaulting the chief warder, and striking the latter on the mouth and threatening to do lor him as soon as he was liberated. The prisoner admitted the assault, and asserted that the warder had singled him out tor specially harsh treatment. The magistrate informed the prisoner that nothing that had happened could have justified the assault. Prisoner; “ Very well, I’ll take the law into my own hands.” The man was sentenced to fourteen days’ bread and water and ordered to forfeit marks equivalent to six months’ remission of sentence. When leaving the dock Logan rushed the chief warder and attempted to grip him by the throat. He was speedily seized by the police and other warders and replaced in the dock and handcuffed. He was sentenced for the later assault to close confinement in irons for one mouth and to forfeit marks equivalent to six months’ remission of sentence.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 924, 29 November 1910, Page 2
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185PRISONER ASSAULTS WARDER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 924, 29 November 1910, Page 2
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