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Show WATER TO SUBDUE MUTINY A pensitlonal scene was recently witnessed wit-nessed In the Concordia prison at Naples, Na-ples, ltals The prisoners confined In two of the cells btoke Into revolt and arming themselves with bats of Iron succeeded In making tin opening In the partition wall suflltlentty large to enable en-able the convicts In one cell to Join those In tho other Tho mutineers then stood on the defence, de-fence, and lor some time were nble, with the aid of stones as well as of cudgel tmpiovlsed by hienklng up the furniture nf the prison to hoi 1 off not onls tho cifiUers of the goal but also n tiody of elty pillee anl nillltln which hid been called In to quell them The tcvoltlng convicts were tlmlls warned that If the did not stirrende orleia would be given to fire upon them but this menace seemel onls to oxuspeiato them into fuither minlfee tullons of disorder Then when It sec med ns If bloodshed was inevitable a happy thought nc curred to the lce-dlrei tor of the pris on He telephoned over to the tire station for wotei engines hose anl men The tesponse cnine In the shape of the two engines, twelve men und an ample suppl) of water As the mutlneeis continue 1 in their disorder seveial streams weie tuinet on and In a fen moments the dien h convicts were gla I to hive In it disc re tlon. i 'Jid It shnul 1 be explained that the Hist trial of this method of dealing with refitictors tonvuts wnB male in the Lnlted States mil it was the chain e recollection of tho earlier American experiment which saved the lives of mutinous prisoners at the Concordia tn Naples |