SCOTLAND.
A preliminary meeting of influential gentlemen was held on Tuesday in the Religious Institution Rooms, Glasgow, to consider the propriety of forming an Adult Reformatory Institution in Glasgow. Bailie David Smith occupied the chair; and after some conversation it was agreed to call a general meeting further to consider the subject.
Thirteen convicts have made a desperate attempt to break out of prison at Glasgow: 'Eleven men who had just been convicted and sentenced in the Circuit Court were placed in a cell ; a warder, alone, incautiously opened the door to place two more convicts in the cell ; immediately he was knock- ed down, his keys seized, and he was locked in the cell. The gang of con- victs armed themselves with staves and gas-pipes, and then sought to escape from the prison. A warder whom they met was knocked down, senseless. But they failed to find egress from a yard which they had entered ; an alarm was raised, a large police-force collected, and, after a desperate fight, the ruffians were overpowered.
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