ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO BREAK GOAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 65

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO BREAK GOAL.

BOtE LADDER AN© SKELETON- KEY- ] ' (Ebojc, Ottb Own GoBBESPffmozNT.) , . WELLINGTON, Janaajry 20. i William' B. Sinclair, wbo in Auguet last was Bentenced to 15 years'. penal servitude] i for burglary along- with • -two *&er men, - l-Hamiitaß and Terris, appeared before 'Mr "Riddell, 5.M., -ibis-afternoon, chariged with hawing In bis possession at the sCerrace . Gaol a black -coat", « pair <ot knicker-'i bockers, a. false band or glove., a srope , ladder, a skeleton key, -and a, half sovereign, with the intention of escaping from legal I custody. " i ■The prisoner pleaded -" Guilty " io^the ; offence, which teas alleged to have taken ■ place on Saturday last. He stated thst he worked -on Mount ■ Cook and with tbe rest of the prisoners ; was -"thoroughly" searched on re-entering &b >. gfloL Another prisoner anust have pair, the articles into ins -cell in order to obtain ■ a- remission d sis sentence. According . to tbe 'sjetem .they had tn ihe .gaol there , was a <pr«mium on that sort of "thing. Mr Armstrong <the gaoler) said that the articles bad beep found on the person of the prisoner, and between 12 and a quarter to 2 he could bave told tbe -officials about the property. His Worship said that if the prisoner's statement wjas "true it- was bis duty to re■port the .matter «± once. The sentence on. ■ tbe prisoner -would be «ik weeks do«e confinement in a. light cell *nd to forfeit a ' number of marks not exceeding such . a number as would gain, for him remission . from bis sentence or one year, .