CHRISTCHUCRH
This day. J. W.Crabbe, a prisonei undergoing a sentance of thirteen years in Lyttleton jail, made a most desperate attemp t to escape yesterday afternoon. He was fired at by the warder Gilehrist but missed. Crabbe gave his pursuers a hot chase for about a mile. He was eventually captured close to the waters edge, at the foot of a twentytwo foot precipice, down which he had dropped. He was very much exhausted when captured.
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Little Un, Volume 1, Issue 62, 18 February 1885, Page 3
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