SENSATIONAL ESCAPE.
AUCKLAND PRISONER’S FEAT.
Auckland, .July 21
Prisoner Fi ■auk Ballar, aged 21, sensationally escaped from gaol yesterday morning - . He was helping to serve breakfast at 6.30 o’clock when he was mis-ed. Immediately afterwards a warder found a rope made from blankets from the watch lower to the wall. The prisoner dropped (iftv feet, walked along the lop of the wall, (hen dropped another twenty fort to the soft ground, where his footprints were seen. There was a dense fog at the time, and the only trace of him is that his prison clothes were found in u house in the city, from which a suit was taken. Ballar was sentenced at Gisborne on .June Bth to three months’ hard labour for theft and three for escaping from custody la be followed by three years’ reformative 1 treatment.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2610, 24 July 1923, Page 2
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139SENSATIONAL ESCAPE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2610, 24 July 1923, Page 2
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