A TERRIBLE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM.
A sensational event has just occurred in the central prison of Plassenburg, near Kulmbaeh, One of the prisoners, named Will, who had been condemned to death, hut whose sentence had been mitigated to penal servitude for life, managed to construct a formidable kind of hammer with a large screw and the leg of a chair. Whilst the other prisoners were at church, the chief of the warders, named Eussler, had occasion to enter Will’s cell, when the latter viciously attacked him, and stretched the unfortunate officer dead upon the floor. Will then stripped the dead man of his uniform and donned it himself, also taking possession of Eusaler’s arms. He then went to another part of the gaol and seized some keys, when he was recognised by a warder named Dummert. The latter closed with the convict, and a terrible struggle ensued, Dummert eventually fell, badly wounded; but the guard, attracted by the noise of the scuffle, came to Dummert’s rescue, pinned Will to the wall with their bayonets, and seized him, The convict is not mortally wounded.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1655, 3 November 1887, Page 4
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183A TERRIBLE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM. Temuka Leader, Issue 1655, 3 November 1887, Page 4
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