ESCAPED PRISONER
STILL NO TRACE MAY MAKE FOR AUCKLAND AT.. noon to-day there was no trace of the escaped prisoner, William Scholes, who jumped from a train yesterday at Puhinui. He made for the open country round Papatoetoe, where there is plenty of cover in the gorse and undergrowth. Scholes usually wears glasses, but it is not known whether he was wearing them at the time of his escape. He has on a blue suit, fawncoloured felt hat and black shoes. There is a scar over his left eye. As Puinui is only 12 miles from Auckland Scholes may have made for the city, or boarded one of the trains running between Auckland and Drury with passengers transhipped at the Karaka slip. Scholes, who had been sentenced at Christchurch, was travelling under escort to the Mount Eden Gaol.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 108, 28 July 1927, Page 15
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138ESCAPED PRISONER Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 108, 28 July 1927, Page 15
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