PRISONER ESCAPES
A THRILLING CHASE. (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) ■SYDNEY, Aug. 29. George Thompson, aged twenty, who escaped from Albury gaol, led detectives a thrilling chase early yesterday. Thompson stole a racehorse from stables at Holbrook. He was intercepted by detectives eighteen miles away, who sprang for the horse’s bridle. The escapee, however, flung ceyenne pepper into the dectectives’ eyes, and leaped from the saddle and disappeared. Thompson got free from, the gaol by pulling bricks from the cell and lowering himself over the prison wall with the aid of blankets..
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1930, Page 5
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96PRISONER ESCAPES Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1930, Page 5
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