PRISONER’S SECOND ESCAPE
* DISAPPEARED FROM CARRIAGE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 2. In his second escape from custody this year a prisoner eluded his escort while on a train near Otahuhu at 4.20 p.m. to-day, and had not been recaptured late to-night. He was Francis Henry Gordon Guilford, aged 51, who previously escaped from the cells at the central police station on February 21. On that occasion he scaled a 20ft wall and broke through heavy gauge wire netting at the top. He was being brought to Auckland to-day 'when he disappeared, after being given permission to use the washroom in his carriage. Guilford made good his escape in February. In spite of an intensive search by the police he was at large for nearly two months, and was eventually recaptured in the South Island. After being charged with a series of offences in other centres, he was being brought to Auckland to answer other ottargefc ——mm-
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23964, 3 June 1943, Page 3
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