DE VALERA’S ESCAPE.
LIKE A PAGE IK PICT!ON. Paris, Mil rcli I. An American interviewer has discovered that Do Valera escaped from Lincoln Prison through the agency id' a. commit lee of friends. The committee lir.-l planned to rush the armed guards outside lh(‘ harhod wire surrounding the exercise yard, hut abandoned the plan lest Do Valera should he shot. An irishman sank Gaelic songs outside the prison telling’ De Valera the method of esc a | ie. De Valera, secured the key of the main gate and made an impression of it in bread, and threw this impression outside the prison. The committee made a duplicate key and secured the services of a number of Irish girls to flirt with the sentries. De Valera lixed the date, and the girls enticed the sentries away from the gate. The friends outside • opened the gale with the false key, cut the barbed wire, and De Valera escaped to London while the police were chasing the decoy motor car.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1947, 4 March 1919, Page 2
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166DE VALERA’S ESCAPE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1947, 4 March 1919, Page 2
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