PRISONERS SHOT DOWN
SAWN-OFF GUNS USED IN GAOL MUTINY
SCENE OF FIRE TRAGEDY
}tl6i.(/ldoo — tig—y Reed. 9.5 a.m. MONTREAL. Tuesday. The Ohio State Penitentiary at Columbus. where 322 convicts were burned to death on April 22, was the scene of new violence today, when the guards with sawed-off shotguns fired upon the unruly prisoners. Twenty convicts are reported wounded. For a week the convicts have been more or less in open mutiny aga'nst the warden and prison administration, and have been trying to smash the cells as a protest over the manner in which the locked-up convicts were burned to death. Martial law was declared today, the warden surrendering command to the military from a nearby army post.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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118PRISONERS SHOT DOWN Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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