MURDER CHARGE
BOY ESCAPES FROM GAOL. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, November 3. Eric Pike, aged lb) years, escaped from the Mildura Gaol, where he was held on a charge of murdering Joseph Smith, whose body was found trailing behind a j inker, as cabled on October 26th, with ten bullet wounds in the neck and chest.
The boy cut, a hole in the roof of his cell, and left a note saying that he was going home to see his mother, who lives at Essendon, Melbourne.
PR ISONE R RECAPTURE^. (Received this day at 9.J0 a.m.) MELBOURNE, November 4. Eric Pike, an escaped prisoner, has been recaptured at Carwarp, thirty miles from Mildura.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1929, Page 6
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