Attempt to Escape from Gaol
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A moit determined attempt to escape from Mount .Cook! gaol hat bran fnutrated. It appears that for a few daya a ennviet named Crabtree, serving a ■entence of 13,7mm for offences committed at Christehurch, had beta shammine sick, and wai allowed to remain is hit hammock. However, the gaoler became suspicious of Crabtree, and had him removed to a, separate cell. An examination of the hammock was. made, when the blanket* were found fob* ««*wn together, and. a child and a two blad-d knife were fotind arereted awaj further inspection shows that Crabtree had been bant with the chi«el and gimlet and had nearly saceeedid in eat ting aJ bale in the wall faffieient-to ailMrthf body of a man to paw through. Crab, tree wan broucht before the Magistrate to-daj and plf adrd . smiltj to the and was wnteneed /,• 30 daya in irbnaf and 7 dajs on bread »nd water. . Qn the 17th of lakt month Crabiree iltempted to escape from Ljri tletoa coal, . and ra fired at. bj one of the warden. It is believed that had the hole been atteeesafall/ eat through tea of. the long tentenced priionen had arranged to escape.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 120, 26 March 1885, Page 2
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