A horrible revolt has occurred in the Penitentiary of POrient,
an island on the coast of Provence, tenanted by some 300 lads, from sixteen to twenty. On October. 2, the boys, irritated, it is said, by some deficiencies in their food, broke into open revolt, liberated the boys under punishment, broke into the stores, and, half mad with excitement, drink, and wickedness, beguiled four- teen lads suspected of telling tales into a warehouse of oil. There they shut them up, and firing the oil, literally roasted them alive, one lad, Allard, driving the victims back with his knife as they tried to escape over a half-broken door. The Governor of the island had no soldiers, and although a portion of the boys pro- tected him, he seems to have been unable to lead them against the murderers, but waited for assistance from the mainland The ringleader, a boy named Condurier, received twenty years' imprisonment
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