BRIEF LIBERTY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1344, 23 January 1912, Page 4

BRIEF LIBERTY.

PRISONERS' BOLD ESCAPE. HOT SEA li CI I A ROUND BROOKLYN. A mild sen-sation was caused in the Brooklyn quarter of the city yesterday afternoon by two prisoners who made a bold, but fruitless, bid lor liberty. The attempt was undertaken at about, half-past three. The escapees, Arinitage and Keid, were working with the Mount Cook gang making bricks. Suddenly, while tho warder's attention was diverted, they scaled the wall and dropped into the street. With all the speed they could muster Ihev made for the Brooklyn hills, and in a very short time they were lost ' to view. | With all possible dispatch the other i prisoners were looked to respecting their security, and a search party was got away j after the fugitives. Warders from the : gaol wero soon in search, and were rein- ! toreed as quickly as could be by police I'rnm various stations. For a while all efforts to unearth the j runaways were without result—but only for a little while. Brickyards were searched, houses were gone through, hills scaled, scrub beaten, but without; avail, until nearly five o'clock, when Hoid was come upon and taken in charge by a warder. Then the hunt for Armitngc was continued. Arinitage had made direct for the Nairn Street Reserve, and it was there he was recaptured. Ho was not. found until near half-past six, so his bold attempt secured him three ,hours' doubtful liberty. When come ifpou by Constables Anglatid and Dempsey, he was hiding among the thick gorse and broom of the Reserve, doubtless awaiting tile fall of night. Arinitage is not bv any means robust, and his lliglit entailed an effort which was more than his poov physique could endure. When found by the police ho was in a pitiable state of exhaustion, "lie was quite . done up, I" 1 ' 0 exhausted," said one of the officers. "We assisted him to his feet, and practically carried hini back to gaol. Wo didn't actually carry him, but had to help him along." To-day the pair will probably answer to the authorities for their misconduct. Arinitage is not a novice ill attempting to break gaol. He is a "Burnham boy, and on one occasion decamped from tne industrial institution, and gave Ins pursuers a lively chase before being caught in the direction of Havelock. in Wellington lie was undergoing two years reformatory treatment. Reid was sen ing a sentence of three years.