A Bold Criminal

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 49, 11 October 1892, Page 4

A Bold Criminal

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

■ ■♦ A daring escape was effected from the Police Barracks at Burketown (Queensland) at two o'clock on the morning of September 6 by Benjamin Bridge, who twelve months ago escaped from the Murrurundi Goal, where he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for horse-stcalirig. Bridge successfully evaded the police until some six weeks back, when he was captured by the local police at Riversleigh Station. A New Soutn Wales police officer arrived the day before, who had identified the prisoner, and intended to take him to Sydney by the next boat, to avoid which the prisoner set fire to his cell and gave an alarm. Senior-constable M'Grath, who was the only constable on the priuiises, opened the cell and removed the prisoner, who, after a desperate resistance, was manacled and chained to the fence. Meantime, in spite of willing assistance, the whole of the barracks were in flames. M'Grath, with others, then when to rescue his wife and family and the court records, books, etc, and during the confusion the prisoner escaped, maning; for the mangroves, where he disappeared, and has not yet been recaptured.' He is thirty years of ■ age, and is said to have been twenty-two times before a jury, the present ■ being his. fourth escape from cuistedy. He informed the New Sonth' Wales officer that .he would never ;talj;e liim. to. Sydney, Nothing now remains on the site of the courthouse and police barracks but a heap of smouldering; ruins. Certainly the best medicine Jinown is Sandeb and Sons' Eucalypti Extbact. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza ; the relief is in* gtantaneous. In serious cases, and ac« cidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swelling— no in» flammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, Inflammation of the lungs, swelling, &c. ; diawhcßa, dysentry, diseases of the kid" neys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical -clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article and reiect all others. — Ai>VT.