The Archive · 1937

Ontario Convicts Stage Protest Against Food

Guelph, Jan. 18.

A riot broke out in the penitentiary: here to-day us 700 prisoners staged protest against the quality of the food provided, Inmates attacked the guards with sticks and bricks and set fire to the Ccolis, while during the struggle 180 prisoners eseaped—Havas, Guelph, Out. Jan. 18 Twenty-one of the convicts who escaped from the local prison after st Ing two riots, returned voluntarily tovday.

Provincial police and students of the Ontario Agricultural College, armed, ith shot-guns and baseball bats, recaptured (en others, leaving: 38 of the prisoners still at large-—United Press.

Guelph, Jan, 19.

Only four or five of the 150 prison-core were still at large to-day. Oficials are perturbed that the supply of tear-fas bombs on which they are Telying {fo keep order among the still excited convicts, is rapidly dwitidling—-

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