Seven hundred and fifty convicts mutinied here to-day in the dining-room of the state penitentiary, refusing to leave while the convicts were given time to "cool off" and: reconsider. This resulted in the restoration of calm and a decision by the convicts to subunit to discipline. No one was injured.
The affair attracted wide attention, in. view of the many prison mutinies during recent months throughout the United States. Overcrowding of penal institutions is the reason generally attributed.
Mar. 27.
As a sequel to last night's dining-room mutiny of 759 convicts in the state penitentiary to-day, a new riot! started to-day and the governor of the state sent out a call for more militiamen.
The summoning of the militia last night, together with a holding-off attitude on the part of officials, who gave the convicts chance to think matters over, resulted in temporary quelling of the mutiny but to-day's trouble seemed more serious.
Some of the convicts were successfully isolated and placed in their cells. Others rioted and fought with militiamen in the prison yard.
The disorders continued but no definite reports of the results were being received outside the penitent flary.
'A bombing aeroplane owned by the state militia is being held readiness for action if the situa tion takes a more serious turn but. officials are reluctant to resort to this unless it appears unavoidable.
'This is the sixth major scale prison' difficulty in the United States wi in about nine months, in vol destruction of more than $1,000,000. worth of property and the death of 18 persons, guards and prisoners. Two of the riots were at Auburn prison, New York and another Dannemora.
Rioting in the Missouri state penitentiary was quelled late to-day after the guards, according to their own story, had been compelled li-torally to' club the convicts into submission.
Troops sent on the order of the ernor of the state were watching the prison to prevent a recurrence of the trouble—United Press.
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