GAOL BREAKERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1512, 21 July 1905, Page 2

GAOL BREAKERS.

(Per PneesTAsgociaticn.) Auckland, last night. The disturbance in Mount Eden gaol on Sunday appears to have been preliminary to a daring attempt to escape by two wellknown prison breakers Suspicious sounds were heard on Monday night, and at 5.30 on Tuesday morning the warder found one man’s cell window minus a lower bar. Another warder was roused, and a search resulted in a prisoner named Ashton being found hiding behind a projection in the passage. He had with him blankets plaited into a rope, with a brick at the end. The prisoner mado no resistance against the two powerful officers, armed with revolvers. He told them that be threw tho briokover the wall, intending to olimb np and reach the top of the outer wall, but the glass embedded into the top of the wall cut his blanket rope, whioh caused the brick to fall. The officers found another prisoner’s cell door barricadecUso tightly as to require force to open it, while one of the window bars had been loosened. Ashton escaped from his cell by tearing up a plank bed, securing the timber, six feet long, which he utilised to force out the window. His door also was barricaded so effectually that tho warders could only enter by squeezing through tho window.