NEW YEAR IN MELBOURNE GAOL.
How the Prisoners 'Kept it. On New Year's Eve an extraordiifc.. ary disturbance was matte v at the Rus-sell-street Gaol"in" Melbourne by up-' •wards 1 bf 40 6'f the prisoners* 'mate afcdi female. They started yelling abojiit 11 o'clock, makings night hideous, and utttil 3 asm, they kejit up'«the%bise 1 interspersing it with mbst foiil and-disK i gustihg langtia'ge, notwithstanding^ he ■ remonstrances of the authorities*- LA. - r body of p r oiice Wie s sent over' 1 : jß'qmi •B^a'swll-Street' to- assist iri> quelling otheii 1 Hoctuvnat^ vocifefritibio, but thpy were r » of hp avail. - Their as^istattce whs not required m any other • respeofc,' an the prisoners scoured m the cells. -At about' 3' a.m. the •••noise ceased, thg iHiiiaddenedmob' doubtless becoirringex-. liausted, aud a few 1 hours aleeip 1 -was given to thp residents m the neighborhood. iVI i" Gall, P. ! visited the Gaol, (^nd de^lt severely with the pvinclp'als!; to th'e I hun'ibei* ( ot'26 males and five females. ' He ; sentenced '-the most : 'onti^g'feous tof tire ; prison^s to solitary • cbnfine l itien|j ! 'iind s^b^uent imprisonfineiiti:anU those who : ilesisted when'renions^tod with 'got ;o#4entaitly, It was the most di*g aoefnl afiWit 1 that has ever happened m tho Gaol.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 50, 28 January 1884, Page 2
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202NEW YEAR IN MELBOURNE GAOL. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 50, 28 January 1884, Page 2
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