During the course of the inquiry which is, being held at the prison the chief of the fire brigade expressed the opinion that all the convicts might have been saved if they had been released from their cells as soon as the fire was discovered.
The prison chaplain declared that if the governor had not gone outside the walls he would certainly have been killed by the convicts who "were enraged beyond human endurance by the thought of the sufferings and the tortures of their
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