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Show TRANSFER j PRISONERS Ossinlng. N. Y.. July 26. Sixty convicts, con-victs, the dregs of the New York City criminal class, were taken ene b one from their cells In Sing Sing toda and placed aboard a train for the state prison at Auburn Recent riots in Sing Sing caused the warden to take no chances. Each convict was heavily handcuffed antf shackled and then chained to his i place In the railroad car which had j been brought inside the prison en- closure. A hundred prison guards did tbis work: while in the state armrv not ; far away, a company of naial militia waited for a call to protect the town In case the transfer resulted In a mutiny. There was litde sleep in the prison la6t night At intervals some of the prisoners would start to howl and hang on their cell door6 The din would increase as It was taken up down the line of cells and continue until the angn r-onvlct6 had worn themselves out it was scarcely da-i light when the wear night shift of I ' guards was relieved by the keepers, who had charge of transferring the men to Aubum. When the first con let ? were hroueht nut tn tho ear Sin? Sine suddenly awoke. More than a thous and prisoners rushed to their cell windows and cursed and howled and cl led threats at the keepers. The task of the authorities was by no means over when they got prisoners prison-ers aboard the car. On the train to w-hlch the car was attached the expected to find friends and rela lives of the convicts, and threats bad' been made that attempts to release! the second term men might le look ed for anywhere between Ossinlng I and Aubum. For this reason there J was also as many guards on the train as thwre was convicts The town of Osslning last night and this morning was full of men breathing J vengeance against the prison authorities author-ities After he has rid the prison of the i second termers to be transferred to Auburn. Warden Clancy expects to have no more trouble keeping order The rest of the second term convicts are to be sent away tomorrow. To them and a few of their more desperate des-perate sympathizers the warden attributes at-tributes the mutinies that broke out at Sing Sing this week, the two fires in the prison shops and the attempt to murder a negro convict whom the mutineers regarded as a traitor I |