ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1467, 15 June 1912, Page 4

ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY.

HOW IT WAS DONE

TeleirraDh—Prose AuoelatlaaJ-.'' 'X^lY', ■f;*',;^'--p.■■>'■!>,,- ;»:-..' Auckland,: "■^An , ssc-ape frora«custody was-perpctriitpa ,, ...'"■.' iitT tlio-'Auckland"Police , Court'.this'.'moa'nv, ,, ; , ■ ing by.'.a'.young , man named. Cliarlee'^Joli'it^-'.' Brooks, 2~i years of ago. Ho.was.bi'oujht.-. ' to Court .to answer , a charge, of.-, , .hayiiis:l,:■ stolen fro!u tho s-s. , Hauiti a EToid , watch and chain," vahiediatjabout ■;; '.' .£SS, and 25f>. iu-monoy." Ho* was rcmandv... , - ed'to" appear on Friday, and in due course! ; : ,,. : was filed out of the prisoners', rooni downv'.vS ,, etairs in company with four or' fiv© other :.:,':? prisoners to march to thto , "hnrry-up"jftv wagon. «-lnch \ras stajiding at tho. gatoif&jl;: about twenty yards distant. Brooks., ap-:>;.: ;: ; parently etepped quietly out of line/andSllS; identified himself with several : members 'i~£ of tho public who at tlio tiino werestaad-''';;:: ing about the doorway and vcstiinJe of^vii , the Court, through ' wliich tho prisoriers'lS had to file. Tlio manoeuvre ivns so coolly "J. ,, ;? , and naturally , done that his absence was ,'4'i unnoticed at the. moment, and it was not , ; ■'(?; till the wagon reached the wntclihcuso /■ ■, that he was missed. ■ It was a clean get-'./.;; a\tay for the timo being. Brooks ie'.S quietly and inconspicuo'usly dressed, \'s, whict will not assist in his lecaphne. •;& There is against him, however, the fact/;;. , !.; that ho is penniless. ■ ■■■ .5i.. : ,;.■■ .'' .■■* '■;;%