PRISON-BREAKERS CAUGHT
By Telegraph—Press Association. Oamaru, August 3. Tile prisoners who escaped from the Oamaru Gaol on Monday night were recaptured to-day within two miles of th» mouth of the Waitaki River. They first made for Eufield, and there stole a railway jigger, doubled Iback, and. uent north. [Between 6 and 8 o'clock on Monday evening two prisoners named John Andrew M'Willinm and George Salven Thomas, on remand for alleged burglary, escaped from the Oamaru Gaol. Ihey were allowed into the passage between tho cells for exercise and pulled out a one-inch bar aid squeezed through the aperture.]
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 266, 4 August 1921, Page 5
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98PRISON-BREAKERS CAUGHT Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 266, 4 August 1921, Page 5
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