A DRAMATIC ESCAPE.
PRISONER IN WIFE’S CLOTHING. (Received Friday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, August 9. . A dramatic escape occurred at San Sebastian (Spain). Commandant Alzugaray was serving a sentence of eighteen years’ imprisonment in Fort Maria Cristina for his share in the Melilla disaster in 1921. His wife visited him in his cell, and a warder later found only the woman there, the husband liad gone. The wife had entered wearing two dresses, and it was Alzugaray who had left, disguised in the outer dress, instead of his wife. It is conjectured chat the commandant went in the direction of Cap® Tresforcas, where a motorcar wa* awaiting.
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Shannon News, 14 August 1923, Page 4
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106A DRAMATIC ESCAPE. Shannon News, 14 August 1923, Page 4
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