PRISONERS’ SHORT LIBERTY.
TE AWAM.UTU, April 11. A prisoner named Kenneth Armstrong, serving a sentence at the A\aikeria Reformatory, escaped on 'I uesday night hut was recaptured this morning, several miles away in the Maiehi district. He was returned to the institution. A report is current that a_wellplnnned attempt to manufacture house hrleaking implements at the prison smithy was made by Armstrong and a fellow-prisoner named Charles Fluty who was recently discharged from the institution. Tho latter went to Christ■v r~ church and was arrested tliere a few 1 days ago, charged with tho theft of prison property, and was remanded to To Awamutu. A third party named Horace Coombridge, employed as a sharemilker on a farm near, the institution, alleged to he concerned in the scheme, was arrested and charged with . complicity. He was remanded until Wednesday next.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1924, Page 3
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139PRISONERS’ SHORT LIBERTY. Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1924, Page 3
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