SHORT-LIVED LIBERTY.
I PRISONER JUMPS FROM TRAIN. [Pee Press Association.] Auckland, May 10. When being brought from Wellington to Auckland on Saturday, to ansi wer charges of theft and false pre--1 tonces, Harold Spencer Caulken ' leaped from the train near Frankton I Junction, when it was going at top | speed, and escaped temporarily trom \ custody. Just before evading his ! escort, he had thrown a kit-bag, coni taining a necessary change of cloth- , ing, into the bushes beside the line. ' Though dazed, he made off into the scrub, but when the train had passed he came back for his bag- When searching for it he saw his escort, Constable Parkinson, coming on horseback, and bolced into the scrub again. The constable left his horse, and a foot chase started. In ten minutes the prisoner's condition gave out, and he took to a ditch, where he was found and taken into custody again, and brought to Auckland.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 17, 11 May 1914, Page 8
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155SHORT-LIVED LIBERTY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 17, 11 May 1914, Page 8
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