TO SEE HIS CHILDREN
PRISONER'S BID FOR LIBERIA' TWO DAYS’ STARVATION (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. HOBART, To-day. The prisoner, Downs, who escaped from the Hobart gaol on Thursday, was recaptured yesterday after spending Friday and Saturday iu the prison workshop without food or drink. He said he wanted to see his children. Downs cut through the steel bars of his cell (evidently with a hacksaw), scaled the 30ft wall of tne prison yard, and climbed over the roofs of several build-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 627, 2 April 1929, Page 9
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