CUT THE CELL FLOOR THROUGH.
HIS SECOND ESCAPE. (Br Telegraph-Press Association.) Whangarei, October 29. I ho prisoner Huston, who was rccaptujv ed on bunday night, and brought to Who, ngarci yesterday, again broko gaol last night.
Ho was visited at 11.30, and then, apparently, everything was all right. Ho had been thoroughly searched, and his boots, braces, and hnt taken from him. An exanimation of tho coll showed marvellous ingenuity. The kauri floor, an inch and a half thick, had been cut half through, ami. then forced. The prisoner went out through a spaco twenty inches by eight • under tho cell, where he scraped tho earth away and got'free. After he got out he visited M'Mahon's Hotel, and stole a pair of boots from the corridor. Ho then visited tho room of a boarder, and took i! 3 10s., a pair of braces, and a hat.,
'i'ho polico aro unable-to giro any idea as to what implement was used to cut the flooring. Huston is a desperate crim. inal, with several convictions against him in America and Australia.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1584, 30 October 1912, Page 4
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178CUT THE CELL FLOOR THROUGH. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1584, 30 October 1912, Page 4
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