FIGHT IN A GAOL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 15 January 1914, Page 5

FIGHT IN A GAOL.

WARDERS ATTACKED. lly Telegraph.—Press Association, Auckland, Yesterday. ' An inquiry was held in the gaol into the charges against prisoners Albert McQueen iind Harry Wilson, of having dons actual bodily harm to a warder ami iy ' prisoner named Frisken. ' r 'i Anderson, who is a storekeeper at iii# prison, was in the store with assistantFrisken, when accused rushed into the"' stove. McQueen struck Frisken on too head with a heavy chisel, and Wilson i -(nick AndeAou with a piece of tam,* pipe. The w avder was partially stunned, lie felt one of the accused attempting to seize his keys, which would have 'jnnl.led them to escape from gaol He , struggled cut of the room and called fir assistance. \ Warder linmrosc stated that when ho -wont to assist Wilwm trjyd ' to knock him down with an iron bar, lie seized the bar and hit Wilson on-" the head with his baton. With- the .<ssistanee oi another wariler ho oW| powered Wilson. Both men pleuik-3 guilty, and were commit ted for trW. _ ! Wilson wn.s sentenced in Auckland ill August, lilll, to 13 years' for indecent assault, and McQueen was sentenced at lnvefcargill m Aagn-t. 11)10. to seven years' imprisonment lot attempted rape, and last year h ] s truce was increased live Years for itli, „,Tem- similar to that wit!, which he i», now charged.