GAOL BREAK
TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE. OVER THE PRISON WALL. (Per Press Association—Copyright). AUCKLAND, "September 10. An ingeniously planned escape was made from the Mount Eden gaol early tins morning by George Hayward iand Harris O’Neill, who are serving sentences of seven and 1 five years’ respectively.
Both were trusted prisoners, employed in the prison bakehouse, and according to practice they were locked in the bakehouse early this morning to get out the first hatch, of bread. Three hours later it was discovered that they were gone,
Using ihu»sivu (Irqbiii's (Vimi the i'lit',n:\ro, they prised npii'tfi window bars leading to the yard and with them took two long wooden rods, the handles of a scoop used for withdrawing loaves from the oven. They lashed these rods together, and fixed to the end a wire hook. They Throw the hook on to the top of the main wall of the prison, drew themselves up the rod, and let themselves down the otho’- side. The morning was- 'extremely windy, dark a.nd raining and the escapees were not seen by the warders.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1933, Page 5
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178GAOL BREAK Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1933, Page 5
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