REVOLT OF CONVICTS.
CAPTURE OF A FRENCH PRISON
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received April 16, 8.10 a m. Paris, April 15.
Taking advantage of the holidays, the convicts in the Gaillou Prison, where desperate convicts are confined, seized the gaol and forced the warders under threat of wrecking the prison to serve sonp, wine and tobacco. Next day troops'with fixed bayonets compelled the convicts to surrender, bnt sixteen escaped into the woods. Nine are still at liberty.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9420, 16 April 1909, Page 5
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79REVOLT OF CONVICTS. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9420, 16 April 1909, Page 5
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