TWO GAOL-BREAKERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1836, 23 August 1913, Page 5

TWO GAOL-BREAKERS.

Patrick Donovan and Thomas . John Lewis, tlio two prisoners who _ escaped togothcr from tho 'lVrraoo Gaol in May,, havo been transferred to different parti' of tho Dominion. ' It will bo remembered that while at liberty they wore concerned, in a burglary at Northland. Lewis, who-: is a hajbitual criminal, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to throe years' imprison- 1 jnont with hard labour, ■ while Donovan was found guilty of receiving stolon (pods and sentenced to a similar term ot imprisonment. ; Besides escaping together in May, cach! i prisoner has to his record ono other osrapo from tlio Terraco' Gaol, and so transfers were deemed necessary ill their' eases. Donovan was recently sent to Auckland under tho cars of two warders and a, polico constable. On tlio journey it is alleged that ho was discovered in possession, of a skeleton key that .would have opened, his handcuffs. Lewis has been removed! to Lyttelton. When leaving here, ho was searched, and is alleged to have ra?sed', strong objection to tlio procedure. Tho only artiiclo discovered in. his possession, which ehould not luivc been there was tied ' round his waist.. It was a 6nndbag,

Patrick Donovan and Thomas . John Lewis, tlio two prisoners who _ escaped togothcr from tlio 'lVrraoo Gaol in May, havo been transferred to different parti of tho Dominion. ' It will bo remembercif that while at liberty they wore concerno® in a burglary at Northland. Lewis, whois a hajbitual criminal, pleaded guiltyand was sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour, ■ while Donovan was found guilty of receiving stolon goods 1 V« .. fm-m nf im.