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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 16, 1906
Page
7
A Polish convict in a life sentence at Lialla gaol fights a warder using a bedstead leg and later a key ring breaks. The warder grabs an iron lamp but is overpowered. the convict is captured after a clash with duty officers. An injured warder faces retirement next day.
In a French note the Revue Hebdomadaire recounts why M Jules Simon avoided partridge. As a boy he revived a wounded partridge named Cornelia with hot wine and built it a wooden leg. The partridge later died in a storm, reminding him of Cornelia and why he never ate partridge.
A Wigan Court report details a boy named Winrow charged with stealing his father's watch. The father says flogging failed. Justice Fyans proposes daily flogging and even volunteers to act as flogger, prompting criticism as an illegal and cruel act.
Reuters reports from Minneapolis that six Greek or Syrian laborers were discovered dead in a brutally hacked condition. Blood-stained knives and a hatchet lay beside the bodies. Police suspect a quarrel among the men with possible involvement of three others. American Indian money was recovered from the victims.
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