MAN’S ESCAPADE
Purchase And Sale Of Drums (By Telegraph.—Press Association.! DUNEDIN, October IS. Au interesting story concerns the activities of a suspect.who escaped from a police station on Friday night just before being charged with the theft of a large sum of money from a local accountant’s office and who was recaptured at Evansdale on Saturday. Following the theft he went to Invercargill, where he purchased gramophone records and -Side-drums from music firms on the pretext that he was interested in a band. The drums were paid for by a stolen cheque, payment on which had been stopped. Returning to Dunedin immediately, be actually sold the drums to the same firm from whose Invercargill branch he had purchased them. After his escape from custody, he was located near Evansdale, but decamped into a swamp from which the police, hearing his cries for aid, rescued him immersed in mud to the hips. The man was an escapee originally from an institution to which he will be returned.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 6
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166MAN’S ESCAPADE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 6
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