AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1928, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

GAOL BREAKERS’ RECAPTURED

SYDNEY, Jan. 30.

As a result- of assistance from some person or persons outside, two prisoners escaped from Woollongong gaol. The police found several bars had been forced from the iron grille which surmounts the exercise yard wall, making an opening through which a man could easily wriggle. The helper then apparently walked along a short passage to the cells of his friends, supplied a jemmy with which the locks of the doors were broken. The same instrument was used to force the hack door of the gaol through which the prisoners gained freedom. Immediately the authorities were notified of the escape. all the police stations in the State were warned. The men were later recaptured at Gosford nearly one hundred miles away. Their hoofs wore almost worn to pieces. They said they had received occasional lifts. Their feet were blistered and they offered little resistance when discovered.

I‘OTSOX TRAGEDY. BRISBANE. .lan. 30. A poisoning tragedy involving two families is reported from Torrens Creek, fifty miles from Mighetidou. Two families resided in one house. It is believed poisoning was caused through the contents of sheep dip which was left on top of a tank, gelting into the drinking water. Six others have been taken to the hospital in a serious condition. The dead are Thomas White, 47, Florence White, 3. Doris Windley 9. BOY KILLED BY LIGHTNING SYDNEY, Jan. 29.

During a thunderstorm at Aloruya, a liov was struck dead on the Showground, and many people in the vicinity were stunned.