The Nanaimo Free Press [Friday, October 21, 1932] [article]

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2023
Kmgtion. Onl.. Oil. 21. -Official! of llic Porlimoulh penilcn-I mif. bfH in mulinou! lurmoil for the last five days, moved thit afipwon to reduce the "overflow population" believed ^o have been IK of the outstanding causes of the riot outbursts of Monday and jalejiij. Good conduct prisoners svere bemg moved from the ooinW building to the svomen's penitentiary nearby. With the nufer of these prisoners it was expected guards would be able to ^ definite control of the 200 rioters not iocted in
more » ... s. Origin-J Jh 110 were housed in a cell-less dormitory, but in most violent nAurst of the present disturbance, the "overflow" gang overcame ia forty guards and released 110 otlier prisoners from their cells. Hit guards found it impossible to hold the 220 "loose" men. al-I ihaigh they have been able to keep them crowded into two cor-I lidors. Inside the corridors, hossever. all furniture has been wrecked iBd fixtures smashed. Temporarily the forty guards svere held by iktpriioDer!, but they were able to effect their release, officials said, lie next move of prison officials, following the transfer of prisoners. I sns expected to be to force the "loose" rioters, strll yellmg and I Eieaniing in their semi-freedom, into the cells vacated by the good I imduct men. Persistent reports today roupled the name of Tim Buck, foraier I lader of the Communist Party of Canada, with the rioting of last I agbl According to these reports. Buck and a prisoner named Croft, I jesterdiy incited prisoners to disturbance with fiery speeches. Persons living inside the blockade set up by a cordon of police and I iskteit around the penitentiary, went without milk delivery this I aaiiiiig. Not even milkmen were allowed inside the barriers. Hie penitentiary today resembled an armed camp, with more Linaie hundred and fifty troop, Mandirig senary al^ the walls. WIFE iSMIES Bm FOR DEERlffiSgiKITS .■^cirtte, Oct. 21_Mi.taldn« her busland's grey cap (or a deer, Un Wil liam Berta (aully .goi him yesterday near Ostrander in Cpselha County, toidinir to press dispatch. Berta, 35, »« employed by a min at Osttander. The tragedy raised the knosnt huntmx iaialily toH since the season start ed.lhrte weelcs ago to eight lor thr State in tdditkkn to a nun»ber wounded »nd many other fatalities in other parts the KofihwesL Berta and his wifn were hanting for drer. They separated north of Ostran der and when Berlz retomed toward the Maning place his wife fired at his moting cap at a disUnce of 300 yards, fvrtr died almost instanUy. , imiSMED iFEDERlLTSX JBOllYIOOD I O.OEEREROB) Cl STiBiGi By ROOSETttT ODTUWS ROUTED III rmurriiiEs Juki, PJ, Oct. 21-Sixty rhillipine ronstabuUry.nrn yesterday again attarked and routed Moro outlawi lelien World News By Cable To Free Press NQTBERMiSTO DEiTRIISIIERSOR ATIEIIFIS RESCl WeHiftctoB. N.Z.. Hmu* of RopnMaUi fiod withoot dmsieB ibo i 21.-Tb« odoy rwti. •r tk* Inporiol CWerooeo. LABOR MOTION REJECTED Loodon. Oct, 21.-By m of IM. the HottM of Comn»otta today dafoatod Uta Labor Oppeaitkra bo*« to mako Imperial Conferanco tnda pacts tamnaablo ao far as Graal BHUie was cawcanOsd. od a sU. aaonths* ootica. Tba vota was 221 i hitrl been to ». MORE LONDON DISORDERS Loadop. OcU 21.-A mob of «aaaaployad attamptod to n»b tba aptba Towed Bsidfa Seattle. Oct., 2l-Mrs. Ellen A. De-I I'icrrii. widowed mother of three chil dren. plangwl to her death yesterday from the ioorlh fbror fire escape of the fashitmahlc Sorrento Hotel while bee ton's armi reached not to save her. (.Irctnttstatices of the tragedy were jntolvcd in mystery. Coroner's dejm-(tHs said they beleivcd the case was ' one of snietde. They declared they j irafned that Mrs. DePierris had brood* * er| csnttantly since the deith of her husband ioar y ar» ago and that she in faihng health for some icht time and had been bedf^den for the fast week / p«Rco stotioM whoro ihrM airaigacd o« cbargM growiof ««t of diaorders yrstwdoy whilo PMaao G*ergo was risituig th« East End. Rosareos wetw called eot and oaa pelicanaa was iainrad. I'dtj 'Tffcr. 'K'l 2i»-(is'ktrni'r K. D. K»2f'scvc!i pla.tcd two iniportsm trump The .
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