ESCAPER IN COURT
Hotel Burglary Admitted (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Jan. 17. Extradited from Australia on January 8, Noel Dennis Doull, aged 25, a barman, today admitted charges of breaking and entering a Dunedin hotel on December 9, 1964, and escaping from lawful custody in Auckland on February 9, 1965. He elected trial by jury on a charge of receiving 11 £5O notes.
Sergeant R. S. F. Halpin (old Mr F. McCarthy, S.M., that Doull was arrested in Auckland on January 29 in connexion with the Dunedin burglary. He and another man escaped from the Central police station cells on February 9. Doull was found in Sydney where he had teen in regular employment, Mr Halpin said Doull told the police he did not know a safe was to be stolen until lie reached the hotel, with some friends, and he escaped from the Auckland cells on the spur of the moment. Doull was remanded till January 24.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30961, 18 January 1966, Page 12
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158ESCAPER IN COURT Press, Volume CV, Issue 30961, 18 January 1966, Page 12
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