RIOT IN GAOL
TWO CONVICTS KILLED BY MACHINE GUNS COLUMBUS FIRE SEQUEL United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. COLUMBUS (Ohio), Thurs. Following a tense night, during which several minor riots occurred, while 650 unruly prisoners were isolated in a high wire stockade, fired the tents in which they were sleeping, two convicts were killed and one injured by machine-gun fire by National Guardsmen on the prison wall. The prisoners at Columbus Gaol were sleeping in tents because of the disastrous fire which destroyed several blocks of the prison buildings on the night of April 22, when 320 men perished in the flames, and hundreds were mortally injured. The building, which was built to accommodate 400, was housing 1,500 prisoners at the time of the fire. Some days later the prison was handed into the control of the military because of the prisoners’ unruly behaviour as a protest against the manner in which their fellow-inmates were left to die in the flames. Order was restored only by the warders opening fire upon a group of the worst offenders.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 967, 9 May 1930, Page 9
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177RIOT IN GAOL Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 967, 9 May 1930, Page 9
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