ESCAPED PRISONER.
PUDNEY STILL AT LARGE. AUCKLAND, Dec. 7. Members of the local detective staff, with city and suburban police officers, continue to search for the habitual criminal, Samuel Arthur Pudney, who escaped from the quarry at Mount Eden prison on Sunday evening. It is believed that Pudney is somewhere in the Dominion road district or adjoining areas, on which the police are concentrating their attention. At the time of his escape Pudney was aiding warders to search a portion of the gaol quarry for cigarettes or other prohibited articles which were supposed to have been smuggled in to prisoners. It is understood that Pudney intimated that he knew where such articles were hidden about the quarry, and offered to take warders to the place of concealment. While the officers were engaged in searching, with Pudney presumably doing the same thing, he made his dash for freedom.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 8
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147ESCAPED PRISONER. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 8
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