ESCAPE FROM PRISON
Preso Associatiou.)
Two Accused Committed for Sentence
(By Telegraph -
CHRISTCHURCH, This Dsy. As a sequel to an attempb to escape from Paparua prison on Septomber 8, Pliilip Daniel Trainor labourei*, and Joliu Herry Wilson labourer, aged 25, pleaded sruilty to-day to a charge of escaping from prison and were committed for sentence. The eseape was described by Reginald Coles, prison warder, who said that the two men, when working in a shfngle pit at 4.25 p.m. last Wednesday dropped their tools and bolted from the top of the pit. Mr Coles gave chase on a bicycle and a sentry gave the alai'm. Mr Coles saw the prisoners enter the freezing works, and later, with the police and warders, loeated Trainor and Wilson inside. They hlcl in a tallow vat and climbed to the rafters, from where they were dislodged by a fire liose.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 203, 13 September 1937, Page 7
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