A CLEVER ESCAPE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1076, 8 December 1882, Page 4

A CLEVER ESCAPE.

A clever escape 'from the Wellington gaol was effected icoently by a Maori girl nqTned_.Lizzic JVijsQp, alias Parahere, alias Te Worowere, who was sentenced to a nioitths’ imprisonment for stealing a •pair of hoots. The A. Z. Times gives the foil vwing account of the escape and re-capture - : “ Shortly after her arrival at the gnol it was found that she was suffering from an? attack of measles, and she •was thei'feforo re'movecfto a comfortable room by the matron and kept in bed. She was very tractable, apparently resigned herself to her inevitable posi tion. At half-past ten in the morning the assistant matron left the prisoner having previously seen that she was comfortable in her bed, while she went to attend divine service. A few minutes later a son of Mr Read, the governor of the gaol, who happened to be outs ; de, saw a hand on .the top of the oujer wall, and, having caused its i remediate withdrawal by calling out 1 Who’s there,’ ho ran to the bell and g4ve the alarm Several warders were quick'y on the spot, arid, while some of them went outside, the others had a look about inside to see whether anyone wns missing. A few minute* were sufficient to show that the girl had leftvher room and that she was not with'n the pr ison walls. It being apparent that she conld not ho far away, a sharp look-out was kept in the immediate vicinity during the whole -of the day, hut with no result except that one of the warders saw her for a ’moment In some scrub a short dis tance from him without ‘being able to ret up to her. Mr Read formed a cordon around the spot, and short! - after dark had the satisfaction of discovering her crouched up on the branch of a t r ee She was, of course, taken hack to gaol, and placed in safe quarters. The girl is only between 14 and 15 years old, and young looking for her age, and she apparently displayed a good deal of cunning in carrying out her plan. She seems to have got from her room into a lumberyard, and from thence into an adjoining enclosure, which gave access to to the matron’s room, where she found a ladder which enabled her to get over the wall. A s soon as shn is sufficiently recover ed she will he brought up before the visiting justices ”