New Britain herald., 1927-03-14
TEAR BOMBS, GUNS,
 END PRISON RIOT
l6 ConVicts in Hospital Alter
 Alabama Inmates Revolt
900 IN WILD DISORDERS
Trouble at Montgomery Penal In. >titution kC>ults Whau iumaJcs Resent Restrictions Imposed on Their Visitors.

Resent Restrictions Imposed on
 Their Visitors.
 Montgomery Ala. March I4 t7 \ bloody battle Was wagyI n klluy prison last nigh. by five hundred prisoners, who chose the supper hour Co rebel against 8 tightening on their privileges. None escaped. but U Were S"H, to the hospital
 Furious Fight Occurs.
 After two hours Of warfare in ome great corridor inside the main building guards quc.Icl the riot with sho,suns and tear bombs after shooting four prisoners and putting i@ others out O. the 1lsh. with blows from broken furniture.
 Warden Shirley informed that firearms. narcotics anI whiskey We're being smugsIed 10 prisoners. had ordered visitors barred from the prison enclosure ami restricted 10 re- eepton rooms. All prisoners receiy- ing callers were ordered searched before returned to their cells.
 htHIt Iahtn ] rom One.
 Prisoner Joe p. Lewis submitted 0 search after q visit from three women, \ knife was taken from him. Word got back to the other pris- oners but Warden Shirley said re- sentiment was not apparent as they began the evening meal.
 Loud talking burst into disorder as guards approached the prisoners to escort them from the corridor 10 their cells.
 A burly prisoner shouted to guards from the milling crowd that tha men would not return to cells or work again until the warden re- scinded his order regarding restric- tlons on visits. Guards closed in aud the fight began
 Guards Forced Back.
 Hurling furniture torn rom tha dining hall, sunday school books ob- talned rom rooms of the corridor and fighting hand to hand, wave on wave, the snarNus prisoners forced guards 10 retreat.
 Other guards. armed with shot guns and tear uomJs appeared be- tore the prisoners could force their way through the long corridor.
 Commands to surrender were met wlta barrase Of chair legs. stoo.s and books. Warden shirley. sNirttn.; the corridor, came in with guards through q side door only 10 tai buc., under the bombarImeut. Guar4s then cut loose with shotguns and tear bombs
 several Are Wounded.
 Frank Bowen, serving a sentence for assault 10 murder, dropped wounded, and Frank McDougal. scn- fenced for receiving stolen property, slipped down out of the fight with a gun wound. Melvin Tyus, sent up for murder, was wounded in the head by load Of buckshot. A. r. Lee, serving a sentence Tor burglary. was shot.
 The four men shot were reg.rdcd as the leaders.
 Battling prisoners. cowed under the rocking fumes of tear gas, claw ing each other in confusion, then lnlurlatud kicked out windows. Wal ter smith was sent 10 .he hospital with leg arteries severed by broken glass. Eleven others suffered cuts and bruises
 Rinelcadcrs In Cell.
 When qulct had been restored, guards rounded up 10 men suspect- cd ot having led the demonstration and put them in solitary contne- mcnt pending investigation. The men, serving terms for utfenses varying from robbery 10 murder, were Tom Wilson, Grady Reynolds. Fred Lynn. Charles Mooney Guy Cobb. Clarence Shirley. I.d, Godfrey, Walter Babb and Chu Hcl.on.
 Governor Eibb Graves, who in his campaign for election pledged the r. pmoVal Of convicts from mines in the stat, declined to comment on the occurrence. Warden Shirley Im- began an investigation.
 The disturbance Was the first 10 occur in the prison. constructed scv- "ral years ui,o in the term of Gov crnor Thomas kU5y. The institution had ncccm" d model for ether pris- ons and had attracted visits from penal au'ho.i,jes from several states. Located ahoVt five miles from tha city, the prison normally houses about 1,oau inmates.