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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 15, 1906
Page
7
A Polish convict in Bialla jail mounted a desperate escape, breaking an iron bedstead to force an exit. A warder fought back with an iron lamp as a key-ring failed, and the prisoner was finally overpowered and irons applied after clashes outside the gate. The wounded guard faced retirement the next day.
In French papers the Rev ue Hebdomadaire recounts how as a boy Jules Simon found a wounded partridge, nursed it with hot wine, gave it a wooden leg, and watched Cornelia die in a storm, teaching him to never eat partridge. The anecdote links memory of Cornelia to his food aversion.
A Wigan magistrate suggested flogging a boy named Winrow while on remand for stealing his father's watch. He offered to personally whip the youth daily if the father provided help, prompting criticism that the proposal was illegal, undignified, and cruel given prior failed punishment.
From Minneapolis on March 26 Reuters reports six Greek or Syrian laborers were found murdered in a ramshackle building. They were hacked with knives and a hatchet, with six bloodstained blades nearby. Police suspect internal fighting among the workers, noting no robbery motive despite money found at the scene. Three other men may have been involved, per indications.
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