PRISONERS INGENUITY
ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FAILS. An ingenious attempt to escape from prison was made by a notorious burglar named Francis Balough, wh'o is serving a lomg sentence in prison. For many months he had secreted portion of his daily bread ration. The night before his attempt to escape he kneaded the bread into a fairly recognisahle bu'st of himself and placed it in his feied to deceive the warders. The round iron stove from the cell he so arranged beneath the blankets as to suggest the rest of his body. After filing through the bars of his cell he let himself down from the window with a ropie made of strips of btanket tied together. The rop& proved too s'hort and he had let himself drop several feet. In doing ' so he sprained his ankle, and the warders, ■aroused by the noise of th'e fall, were easily able to overtake and 'recap ture him.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 494, 30 March 1933, Page 3
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