MUTINOUS PRISONERS
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AT AMERICAN PENITENTIONARY. j I (Received Last Night, 11.10 o : ckck.) ' NEW YORK, October 14. A number of guards were locked in Rawlin's Penitentiary with mutinous prisoners. The guards tried to prevent wholesale gaol breaking. Armed citizens waited outside to attack escaping convicts. It is rumoured that several guards and convicts were killed. A citizens' posse is fighting the escapees in the hills. Two men were killed and one badly wounded in the street. Two convicts were re-captured, Troops" are asked, for.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10711, 15 October 1912, Page 5
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91MUTINOUS PRISONERS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10711, 15 October 1912, Page 5
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