ESCAPE OF TWO PRISONERS.
PROMPT RE-CAPTURE.
Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, last night Two prisoners at Lyttelton gaol, R. McCarthy and A. Rawson, made a daring hut unsuccessful attempt to escapo this afternoon. With the aid of a long rope, which they had manufactured out of bits of calico, thov dropped over the high outer wall o'i the gaol and made off along an adjoining thoroughfare. The warder on tlio watch-tower saw the men escaping but he did not fire for fear of hitting -the children in -a school playground below. The gaoler and warders pursued the fugitives and captured them in a privato yard not far from the gaol. McCarthy -lias escaped twice before and lias been declared an habitual, criminal. Rawson, who came from Australia in 1902, is at present serving a sentence of five yenrs for burglary.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2111, 20 June 1907, Page 3
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138ESCAPE OF TWO PRISONERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2111, 20 June 1907, Page 3
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