ESCAPE FROM GAOL.
And Prompt Recapture. Christchurch, June 19. Two prisoners named R. McCarthy and A. Rawson effected a temporary escape from gaol this afternoon. With the aid of a long rope, which they had manufactured out of bits of calico, they dropped over the high outer wall of tlie gaol, and made off along an adjoining thoroughfare. The warder on the watch-tower saw the men escaping, but he did not fire, for fear of hitting the children in a school playground below. The gaoler and warders pursued the fugitives, and captured them in a private yard not far from the gaol. McCarthy has escaped twice before, and has been declared an habitual criminal. Rawson, who came from Australia in 1902, is at present serving a sentence of five years for burglary.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 20 June 1907, Page 3
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132ESCAPE FROM GAOL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 20 June 1907, Page 3
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