CRIMINALS ESCAPE
RFOM HOBART GAOL Hobart, November 22. The police are scouring the country for two out of four desperate criminals who escaped from Hobart Gaol on Sunday afternoon. One of the four .escapees, in jumping from the prison wall, broke a leg and was recaptured The men, with other prisoners, were attending a Salvation Arm meeting in the exercise yard, and were not missed till a boy informed the police that he had seen three prisoners running along the street. It is supposed that the prisoners took advantage of the meeting to evade the guard, scale the,prison buildings, and then drop from a wall 14ft. high. An armed party of police recaptured one of the escapees, Downs, a longsentence man, five miles from the city. He refused to surrender and invited the police to fire, but he was overpowered after a struggle. The other two, hiding near, mana.ged to elude the police.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 50, 23 November 1926, Page 9
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153CRIMINALS ESCAPE Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 50, 23 November 1926, Page 9
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