TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE.
BREAK FROM MPISM! > EDEN GAOL. JIM FLIGHT. IN MOIOB<Sp^H I .. [TBB PBES9 tog | AußKMiri MSB i A daring ese»pe from Houijpg|j||| prison was made shortly this afternoon by two Douglas' For«ytb acd ; Evans, both aged S3. ' "Withi|jsyfli||gi yards of the guard in the s6jis*ijjji|li whose view was limited' by /£ s -glgi hill, the men..- clambered barbed-wire boundary fence to ' and rau along the railway IW J ;'-E§jPjl | street, where they j private motor-car, and the immediate pursuit: The not been reeapturel at a l«t^iaj2aM Tito men were woildng of about thirty on a quarry is surmised that they. to a position oat' of sight of They jumped on to the top f the fence, which slopes inwaiOflKj' clambered down hand-ovcr-hanjj| otherside. Workmen in the ncighbouroßrej^^ l tories saw the men running ■ fence and across iha road.was carrying a large atone, "e&ffiTfcy might have used to overeom* iwtJS tion; but he dropped thif in of the road. ' . ;■ Jgfj The guard saw the running. fflrrJ; when they were almost mauby road* Befqrs hs gun, the Qian disappeared beMjjffm|& by buildings. Hq inunaiia»Mj^^^ Fortune favoured the motor-car, which had been' few minute?, before; H. W. Taylor, was street. . The men entered foqnd the key in the The Superintendent of, the «BHH| JT. Diekison, plaoad carrying warders on the pojle® the suburban *»4 patrol* are ou It is thought that the ing through the Waikato 3m||H| fugitive car was frftaofl. tP- HMMHI The pmpnert woire wStekfiMßwite lington at the Supreme CndHHH last July, FeiiytE f tO llpnefejHßHß years' imprisonment ># version of a motornwir, ap£|HflH» three iffipriisoitiii^^H^^^H Eden prison; but capsd, tut esploir he haa lander.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20177, 4 March 1931, Page 8
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274TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20177, 4 March 1931, Page 8
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