THE PRISON ESCAPEE

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1929, Page 3

THE PRISON ESCAPEE

GRAVELY WOUNDED. AUCKLAND, September 21. Two little girls describe the escape df John Buckley, aged 27, who was shot by a warder after he yesterday left Mount Eden Prison. At 4.30 in the afternoon, while ' working in the prison yard, Buckley slipped away, and attempted to escape by scaling the outer wall, and lie was running in the open ground on the other side when lie was detected. ’ The two little girD said they saw a man jump over a low stone wall. He 1 rah about 1 ten yards:' 1 Then he threw up his .hands ,and} fell .oil his face. Then a warder : with a rifle in his hand came running from a‘house, at the corner of the gaol.}. He stopped when he got to the other man, who was lying down and moaning terribly, and there was a lot of blood on his clothes. It was raining heavily at the time that Buckley escaped. Buckley remains in a critical condition at the Hospital. A SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT. AUCKLAND, September 22. A slight improvement in the condition of John Leslie Buckley, the prisoner who was shot while attempting to escape from Mount Eden Goal on Friday afternoon, was reported by the hospital authorities this afternoon.