ESCAPE OF A PRISONER FROM SHORTLAND GAOL.
About two o'clock on Sunday afternoon (says the Advertiser), it was discovered that the prisoner George Wilson, who, on the previous day, had been convicted of being unlawfully on the premises of the Thames Hotel, had made his escape out of gaol. The escape was effected in the most open manner. Mr. Foster had merely turned his back for a few minutes, in order to go into his house, where one of the prisoners had just taken soroe fuel for the fire, and, on returning, found a form reared against the wall, and the prisoner gone. He could not have been gone more than a minute or two before his escape was discovered. It is quite possible, when the natives learn that he is an escaped prisoner, they may be induced, for some substantial considerations, to capture him.
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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 218, 20 September 1870, Page 2
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145ESCAPE OF A PRISONER FROM SHORTLAND GAOL. Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 218, 20 September 1870, Page 2
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