BED LINEN LADDER.
.'•■ffc BERLIN, Feb. 10. A romantic tale is told here of the escape from Naumberg Prison on Sunday night of Lieut. Dittmar, the Üboa;t officer who was undergoing, a Bentence of four months’ imprisonment for lu's share in murdering persons in lifeboats'ifrom the torpedoed hospital ship T.landovery Castle. . Friends, it is stated, scaled the prison wall with a ladder and, placing a mat on the jagged glass -at the top, let themselves into the yard with a rope ladder. An iron file had been smuggled into Dittmar’s cell, and with this he cut the bars of the ceR window and descended by a rope made with bed linden. The rope broke when he was half . down. In spite of his fall be Yfl&a&Bed to scale the wall with the • ledger' jji* friends h/}d brought.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1922, Page 3
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137BED LINEN LADDER. Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1922, Page 3
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