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Show Mutiny Starts In U.S. Prison I.KAVENWOKTH, K a n s., 1pc. 11. lU.R) Karl Thayer, 63-y 63-y ear-old mail robber who es;uped from the fedenil prison hero Friday, was captured hero today. LEAVENWORTH. Kans,, Bee. 14. Ul!) A mutiny of 20 convicts in the boiler plant at Leaven wort n federal penitentiary was suppressed by prison officials during the hours preceding dawn today. The mutiny apparently was the first step in a plot to throw the prison into complete darkness in which guards would have been handicapped han-dicapped in putting down a riot, Twenty convicts threw down their shovels and refused to tend 1 the furnace fires, Bates said. Other prisoners were rushed to the power plant and put to the task of keeping the fires going while "proper disciplinary measures" meas-ures" were taken against those who mutinied, Bates said. It was the general belief among prison officials that the mutiny in the power plant was intended to plunge the prison into darkness which would have been the signal for other convicts to join in an outbreak. |