RAIN HELPED ESCAPE FROM GAOL
SYDXEY, Jan. 2. A notorious house-breaker, Crofton Edward Barnes, 20, eseaped from Long Bay gaol. wheve he was serving a tenn of six years' iniprisoiimeiH for housebreaking. Wlien the [irisoners were being marehed into Ihe recreation »i 11 for a talkie show he iiroke ofi' and hid. He then scranibled over tlie roof of i shelter shed, tore an iron stanohion oi.t of the liiwn t'ence and with it forced the loek on the door of a rlividing wai'. Fsing two garbage cans he climbed tlie 20-foot onter wall of tlie prison and Tnade liis est-apo. Rain obliterated jiis Iracks. An investigal ion will be lield.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 January 1948, Page 5
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111RAIN HELPED ESCAPE FROM GAOL Chronicle (Levin), 3 January 1948, Page 5
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