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PRISONER WHO ESCAPED
CAUGHT IN SYDNEY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day,
Roy Raymond Witting (25), a carrier, who was recaptured in Sydney recently, was sentenced to-day to three years' reformative detention by Mr. Justice Adams on a charge of escaping from Paparua Prison on 18th April, 1927.
Counsel pointed out that the original sentence of three j'ears on which the prisoner was sentenced for breaking, entering, and theft expired at midnight yesterday. ■'•'■■.'■
His Honour said it would be a most mischievous example it' the -prisoner were dealt with in a'way-jjhicn- put a premium, on escape,. ■ ;:
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 44, 21 February 1930, Page 8
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