AID TO PRISONERS.
Keepers at Iking Sing Prison, U.P.A., say that the use of a dummy to aid a prisoner to escape is as old as the prison. Cleverest of all the dummies that prisoners have left to represent them was tiie one made by John McAllister, a burglar, who escaped from iking iking recently. McAllister moulded a head from dough mixed witli soap, producing a clever copy of his own features. He decked the crown of the dummy’s head with hair cut from his own, using a course, artificial crop onlyfur the less-conspicuous sides and back. Another ingenious dummy was the creation of Jean Kirshcr, who escaped from the prison three years ago. Kirshcr was not able to build u head and face to his double, but he stuffed a pair of trousers and shoes, propped up his lav figure wit It legs crossed, and laid a newspaper against them. Prom outside the prisoner appeared to be reading quietly.
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Otaki Mail, 29 December 1919, Page 4
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160AID TO PRISONERS. Otaki Mail, 29 December 1919, Page 4
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