PRISONERS ESCAPE
ATTACK WARDERS WITH
SHOVELS
By Telegraph—Press Association— HOKITIKA, last night.
Four long-sentence prisoners recently drafted from other gaols to the local gaol, while engaged on road work, within half a mile of the gaol, suddenly attacked Warders Lodge and Morgan this afternoon, with shovels and other tools. The prisoners succeeded in overpowering the warders and in making their escape. , , They secured the rifles, but not ammunition. . Tlie prisoners must have separated, as one of them was two hours later seen on the terrace overlooking the racecourse. • , Up to eleven to-night, the police had not succeeded in making a capture, hut it is almost impossible, from the nature of tho country, for the prisoners to make good their escape.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 562, 4 November 1902, Page 3
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