ONTARIO PRISON RIOT
CONVICTS IN CONTROL PRISON WRECKED Scores of Escapees Roaming the Countryside. Press Association—Copyright. Guelph (Ontario), Jan. 18. Provincial and city police were rushed to the Ontario reformatory, where the prisoners were reported to have seized complete control after a riot in which blankets and mattresses were burned and ligbjte smashed. Several persons -were injured. ,
Police guards said the situation was under control at midnight after the interior of the prison had been wrecked.
Scores of prisoners escaped and are roaming the countryside. One offiical said: “I am sure every prisoner who wished to escape did so, but a check is impossible 'until morning.”
Three guards wire injured,' none being hurt seriously, and several convicts were overcome by smoke and were treated in the prison infirmary.
The police used tear gas but it was ineffective because nearly all the windows in the building had been broken and thus permitted the gas to escape.
The riot started at noon, when 7000 prisoners refused to eat and continued their hunger-strike for twelve hours.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 337, 19 January 1937, Page 5
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173ONTARIO PRISON RIOT Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 337, 19 January 1937, Page 5
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