A LEAP FOR LIBERTY
PRISONER JUMPS FROM EXPRESS TRAIN BUT IS SOON RECAPTURED By Tqjeuraph—Press Association. _ t \ Auckland, April 2if. The prisoner named William Frederick Murray, who achieved notoriety by escaping from Mount \Eden Gaol early in January, created a sensation on the Wellington express to Auckland (whither he was "peine returned under escort) by jumping from the train as it was Hearing Auckland yesterday afternoon. Mo took a. (lesperato risk by leaping from a lavatory window whilo tho train was going at full speed, close to the Middlemore aolf links at Mangere crossing. While ho escaped serious injury, he was 6 ? kicked about and shaken by the fall that, he was not able to fret far from the line before one of the escorting warders got back and recaptured him,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 179, 24 April 1920, Page 6
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131A LEAP FOR LIBERTY Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 179, 24 April 1920, Page 6
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