A PRISONER'S ESCAPE.
NEATLY ACCOMPLISHED
[ll\- TELEGRAPH. —I'RKSS ASSOCIATION*.] AucklanJ, This Day.
A quiet and deft escape from custody was perpetrated at the Auckland Police Court yesterday by a young man named Charles J. Brooks, aged 25 years, who was brought before the"court to answer a charge of having stolen from the s.s. Hauitia a gold watch, etc., valued at lie was remanded and as he was being marched with others to the waggon which was standing at the gate P.rooks apparently quietly stopped aside and identified himself witn several of tno public who were standing about the doorway of the court through, which the prisoners had to li!e. 11 is absence was unnoticed at the time, and not till the waggon reached the watch house was he missed. Brooks is unconspicuously dressed and is penniless.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 474, 15 June 1912, Page 5
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136A PRISONER'S ESCAPE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 474, 15 June 1912, Page 5
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