PRISON BREAKING.
DEPARTMENTAL INVESTIGATION, The Hon. A. L. tlerdman told a reporter yesterday that; under his instruotious, Messrs. G. C. B. Jordan (Under-Sec-retary for Justice) and C. E. Matthews (Chief Clerk to the Justice Department, and Deputy Inspector of Prisons) had paid a visit to the Terrace Gaol to inquire into the circumstances under which a prisoner escaped from that institution on Wednesday. Tho officials will report to the Minister, and he will afterwards give instructions that any steps ho may consider necessary 6hall be takcu to mako tho prison secure. Asked whether there was any likelihood of tho prisons being removed from tho cities to country districts, Mr. Uerdman said that there was no immediate prospect of such a change. • Tho outlay which would be involved was too great to bo incurred in the near future.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1781, 20 June 1913, Page 4
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137PRISON BREAKING. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1781, 20 June 1913, Page 4
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