Escape of a Prisoner.
A young man named Henry James Howard, aged nineteen, escaped from the police gaol at Nelson on Wednesday morning. The gaoler bad given him his breakfast and bolted the cell door, but not locked it, and had left the outer door unbolted. Howard put an arm through the observation hole in the cell door, shot back the bolt, got into the gaol yard climbed over a 12ft iron fence topped with barb wire and escaped. He has not yet been recaptured. - Howard was under arrest for causing grevious bodily harm to Michael Goughian of Brook Valley. He had threatened to assault Goughian’s daughter. Goughian accosted him, when he attempted to brain Goughian with an axe, and in raising his arm to defend hia bead Goughian’s arm was broken. Howard was formerly concerned in the juvenile bushrangers’ camp at Maungatapa some months ago, where large quantities of stolen food were found. He has since bean re-captured after walking 60 miles.
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Manawatu Herald, 20 June 1903, Page 2
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163Escape of a Prisoner. Manawatu Herald, 20 June 1903, Page 2
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