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BELFAST CAPTURE GAOL-BREAKER IN BED SEARCH FOR OTHERS By Cable. — Press Association. —Copyright LONDON, Sunday. Conlon, one of the murderers who escaped from Belfast Gaol, was dramatically recaptured in the early hours of this morning. Armed police formed a cordon round a house in Lesson Street. Belfast, while others dashed into the place. Conlon, awakening to find his bed surrounded, surrendered quietly. The police are searching for others who are believed to be hiding in the same area. —Sun. Three men who had been sentenced to imprisonment for life for murder, and one man who was serving a sentence of 12 years for attempted murder, effected a sensational escape from a prison at Belfast at daybreak on May 9. The escape was cleverly planned both inside and outside the prison. About 4 o’clock in the morning a motor-car entered the gardens of a convent adjoining the prison, and at a given signal the four convicts, who, it is stated, were occupying one cell, rushed into the corridor, seized the warders and gagged and trussed them up. They took their revolvers and their keys, and then entered the outer yard of the prison and scaled a wall. They entered the waiting car, which was driven away at more than a mile a minute toward the Free State border, 50 miles away.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 45, 16 May 1927, Page 12
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