EXTRAODINARY ATTEMPT TO

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1767, 15 February 1888, Page 2

EXTRAODINARY ATTEMPT TO

An Italian tiam«d iiutulnico Torelto hai ju« tried to eacpe from a Paria priaon. *.ud hid attempt (the < Daily Telegraph V 1 correspondent remarks), although un«uocesiful, d.'Berves record owing t. the Monte Ohrlato like manner m which it waa planned. Wbilp waking In o Kind <.f chain gang m the exercise ground of the gaol, Torello trod on a metal pp a » B which g*vo way under hio foot. H<- Imuiediatey arrived al (h<» conclusion that the plate covered the month of a drain o-imniani. eating with one of Iha great aewv re f ,f the city. Hope of freodc-m apr-n* up m th« breast of the lt*l»au, and on returning t» h|* cpll he began to work «-ner«etio«Uy m vi 6 u t0 b ° re * P MBfl K e •h'-.-ngh i he wall which woold allow him to reaoh the month of the drain Ho broke a piece of iron (8 the lower p»rt of his table, fixtsd a pfece of yr^qd O u it «s a h*nfile aud began to on the wal anief >ha window-ledge Thlv tocop ed .j h m fiom 10 .t night unijl4o'o ock m the i m »m t.% w»ie,n he o Jleb ed the rubbiflh : put it mder Ms matre«V ad ailed tbn j hoe httiad mwie with biend a d plaster Ihunkii to his vigi aoibd. lione of t c turnkf jp ptv.eivM t c eicava ion*, and on iho bltowiug night he reuomuioneed h* toil lit fore d ybreok ; hb Dho B qc« oeeded b rt moving one of the 'arge etonei formipgihe window ledge, and m making an fpeii;g thiongh wbioh he could »qUB B'-i'Bbody. benex madeaUdd r w e.i nh •heet*, and tUtta started on .he road to reeh air ai,d freed, m. He nnt thronph the aperture with diffiooty, emergedinto the courty»rd, and reached the meta plata covering, an he th'.nijh the drain Down through this he dropped and fouol himaelf m a Jar^o cellar at one ad of wiioh he saw a light. ' Ho was m rap region of subterranean hp»t, whpre tie mon implpyed In warming the pris. n md their furuac^. This .irao not f?aotl> Fiat he wauttd ; •■• Torollo, abandooirii h.pp, went a.,d «a? P bjm^/f up fa the h»*d itoker, who, on (Kateulng from hia •limb 1 r§, wat eurpriied to gee » njoo )ik" •Mg bufore him, wt »k, t^hauated, and ootred with mud and patter T« ft IMlan Wfcf Ukeit back to bia call. ». d wll have to ouderg., * a addition .1 teim of j ■ priionment for his uutim»Jy vUit r«, .beO»T»i *if K«r, which lie nndur thy Prion Q» la K» t .

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Ftdnby, February 14. i Tho oricket mater, ( oitbin'd Australia sertus a t«? no srleo'ed -from MesSrs Veruon's add LillvwhiteV, teams, which! ha<i to be postponed for two dajs m j cmdb' q<i- nee of wet leather, wan continned to-Hny '|h« we*ther wan fine, i nni tho recent rain* had made the wicket dunp. Tne Australian?, who m the first dny's pay had lost eight wickets fo» 35 run*, continual t^er iudings, «hoh c osed for 44, beinj? 69 behiud their opp>nent«. Garret waa tho big iest ■ooror with.vlO. Ti • Kng : lVhraen then *«nt iv for their second innings, and no red 137. Maurice Rjad 39, Nev7ham and IStoiJdart 17 eapb, Brii?^ 14, and Attwell 12 In their second Jnuin«»,th*» AuatraHani ha»© lost fir*) wioketo for <7 runu.