One Guard Killed: Deaths of Eight More Threatened Auburm, N. ¥., Dee. 11, In its second outbreak this year, Auburn penitentiary is to-day the scene of rioting by desperate prisonfers who have already killed one guard, captured Warden Edgar} Jennings, and who threaten eight other guards with death unless they are released.
The Auburn police and a detachment of state militia are on their way to the prison.
Today's outbreak is the fifth large prison riot in the United States within recent months. Only] month ago the warden was present! at a meeting of state and federal prison officials at Albany, called in order to deal with the increasing menace of the results of overcrowding of penal institutions throughout the country.
'Auburn penitentiary and the penitentiary at Dannemora have both suffered from outbreaks during! the current yenr. The' previous Auburn affair was in mid-summer.
Outside New York state there have been outbreaks at the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, and at the state prison of Colorado, In addition to the fact that virtually all prisons in the country are overcrowded, the institutions at JAuburn and Dannemora have ancient ive sanitation and conditions in general designed to} raise inmates to a pitch of desporation, New buildings have been recommended but the plans have not been! jearried out as yet.
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