ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY.
PRISONER STILL AT LARGE. (Pkb United Press Association./ Auckland, May 8. In March last Archibald Scott, a young man, aged 24, a prisoner at the Mount Eden Prison, serving a sentence for breaking and entering and theft, was sent to the Auckland Hospital suffering from rheumatism. Last Monday week, at about 7 o'clock in the evening, Scott donned his clothing, including the hut and boots of another patient at the hospital, and left the institution. That, was the last the staff saw of him, and though the police have been on the look out for the fugitive he still remains at large. He was sent to the Auckland prison from Wellington.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19475, 9 May 1925, Page 2
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114ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19475, 9 May 1925, Page 2
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