PRISONERS ESCAPE
HELPED FROM OUTSIDE CAUGHT lftO MILES AWAY Reed. 11 B-m. SYDNEY, To-day. As the result of assists nee from some person' or persons outside, two prisoners escaped from the Woollongong Gaol. The police found that several bars had been forced from the iron grills which surmounts the exercise yard wall, making an opening through which a man could easily wriggle. The helper then apparently walked along a short passage to the cells of his friends and supplied a jemmy with which the locks of the doors were broken. The same instrument was used to force the back door of the gaol, through which the prisoners gained their freedom. Immediately the authorities were notified of the escape all police stations in the State were warned. The men were later recaptured at Gosford. nearly 100 miles away, with their boots almost torn to pieces. They said that they had received occasional lifts. Their feet were blistered, and they offered little resistance when discovered. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 265, 30 January 1928, Page 9
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