GAOL ESCAPEE.
COMMITS A DARING BURGLARY.
At Wanganui, on Thursday, George Albert Wallingford, awaiting trial for a series of theits from hotels there, escaped from gaol. He had been in the washing house, and in the momentary absence of the warder, disappeared. The police spent an energetic five hours in searching until a telephone message from Mr S. J. Gordon, manager of the Bank ol Australasia, announced that a burglar was in his house. Constable Keenan was promptly on the scene, and found the burglar to be Wallingford. He had got in through the window while the family was at tea. Mr Gordon had occasion to go into the front portion of the house, and there saw someone moving. Thinking it was his son, he askedi“ What are you doing here, ’ ’ and the burglar candidly replied “I’m thieving.” The arrest was an easy matter, and Wallingford was watched until the police arrived. It then transpired that the house of Mr Bertram Lambert on the other side of the road had been entered. The prisoner showed the police where he had hidden the articles. His swag altogether totalled about
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1075, 27 July 1912, Page 3
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188GAOL ESCAPEE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1075, 27 July 1912, Page 3
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