The Detroit times., 1912-09-04
STATE TROOPS FIRE
hOLLEYS' AND PUT
sD0HFPRSON RIOT
FIFTY Convicts Escape From
Bun Pen and Wreck
Property
CONVICT NAToOL, OF
NEfRoIT. ISlWOUNDED
NM 80
Militiamen Subduc Rioters Who
ARMED, Selves With Knives
u and Other Weapons

JACKSON, Mich, Sept, S.-After
state troops under command of Cap
tain BlAckman. commanding. Company
N, had been called out and fired two
vallcys inside the walls OF Jackson
pfison, a riot which broke out when
fifty conyicts escaped from the bull
pen. was put down at 1 O'Clock this
afternoon and the men who fed from
tie bull pen and wrecked property
were put back. The man made their
esfape when the bull pen became so
crtwded that the guards were unable
t0control the mutinohs prisoners.
Alter the prisoners escaped from
to bull pen they obtained hammers.
kV)ves, barrel slaves and other
X ds iCfsEeapons and continued the
81 ~ until they, saw that defiance OF
e. militiamen meant death. and then
thy became submissive.
Peter Matool, sentenced from De
4 'it In 1911 to serve three years for
Iceny, was shot In the arm. He was
tn only convict wounded, After the
foidiers had fired the volleys the riot
Gus inmates became subdued.
y One of the men who escaped from
the bull pen was q convict named Alb
beg, number SS4S. When ordered to
stand and with rife aimed at his
had he broke and ran. After being
fred at twice he gave himself up.
Abbey was sentenced here from Ben
tdb Harbor for three years. His term
hid nearly expired.
Hha. militiamen fired from the dep
N8fdehes window which overlooks
the prison yards.
Inmates at, the prison state that the
trouble Is not due alone to the fact
thai They were served with improper
food / but because there are hundreds
o. men ia the institution who have
served their fnirfnrtln setifences and
should be, released. The situation is
ihtensife ~ however, by the serving
to them fof bread and wataE- rations
They are shouting that they are being
starved to death, But there sisc no
truth In that. as sufficient food is CIV
ep themsto keep them from reaching
that condition.
IAltbough, corporal tunishment was
rkstoted 1Qy order OF; the board OF con-
idol Jesta6daS the administration or 1t
hid kAt-been put into actual force
when the prisoners escaped from the
btif-penEssFhs only Pt1nishmeHt being
imposed this morning was the occa-
sional transfer Of a rioter to. the bull
PEN.
Before the outbreak today the
noise In the prison was spasmodic, in
dicaffng that. the @chalked In" prison
erx we're becoming exhausted. They
were hungry and had not slept much
since last Thursday when the first
real disturbance began Warden
Simpson requested the sheriff to fur
nish him more guards for the day
duty.
Early this morning fire broke out
In one of the prison barns. II was
discovered In the nick of time by
citizen, who turned in the alarm. The
bafkk brobably started from defective
eloQtries wiring. 1t was next to the
roof, Immediately below which was a
full NOW of straw. The only damage
done was to the roof.
A close watch is being kept both
inside and outside the prison to see
that. trusty prisoners do not add to
the trouble by starting fires.
Yelling and pounding in the cell
blocks continue and there are a lot
Of Sligfbles who have not yet been
cunsignedtt0 the bull pen. The num-
Der already chalxed in the bull pen
is about i've hundred