ESCAPEE CAUGHT

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1933, Page 6

ESCAPEE CAUGHT

GIVEN AWAY BY HIS SHADOW.

SYDNEY, January 27

A shadow which caught the eye of a detective led to th 0 capture of an escaping prisoner.

Detective Miller was standing in the exercise yard of th 0 Camprsie police station, when the shadow of a man passed across the. coat of an office] 1 to whom the 'detective was .speaking. Turn, illy round and looking upward he saw a young nmn, who had been arrested a short time previously on a charge of burglary, climbing along the roof of th e colls. The man had bis b°ot s off and was making toward the rear of the roof, -where lie koulcl easily jump into a lane-wav at th e rear. Drawing his revolver. Detective M>U p r called on the prisoner to .stop. T ft e man looked round and, ppeiii.r the pistoi pointed at Ijinf. dramatically placed hi? hand over mV heart and exclaimed, “Go on. then, shoot me hero.”

Detective Mille,. refrained fr°m shooting and induced the prisoner to cp'mt> down into tljo exercise yahl. He vas then locked up in another cell. Upon examination of the cell which tile man had previously occupied it was found that several iron bars ol the grille on the window-had been removed by the use of a piece of wat.iv pining.