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Show PLOT TO BLOW UP PRISON IN ONTARIO REVEALED KINGSTON, Ont , Oct. 15. A plot to ffeel the wholesale escape of pris- m'ers In 1'ortsmouth penitentiary and then blow up the prison with nitroglycerine nitroglyc-erine was thwarted yesterday. I'rlson officials, acting on a warning warn-ing that an attempt would be made j to free the convicts, tore down portions por-tions of the penitentiary wall and un- eovered i ston of rifles shot guns und ammunition with enough of the explosive ex-plosive to have destroyed the structure. struc-ture. Authorities declared their belief that the plot was about to put into exe- leiitioii prisoinT.v ireed, guards slain rind ihe prison itself blown up. It hough no official account of Ihe conspiracy bus been given, it Is known I thai suspicions of the prison author!: tie.H recently were aroused. An Investigation Inves-tigation la under way. Four convicts. Inim.wii to be exceptionally dangerous. have been placed in solitary confine-, raent. |