SENTENCE DOUBLED
YOUNG PRISON ESCAPEE Press Association ELLINGTON, "Wednesday. I regard the offence of escaping from custody as a serious one,” said tlie magistrate, when a voung man Eric Steadman, who appeared in the Police Court today in prison clothes, admitted escaping from Mount Crawford prison. i^ub-Inspector Lopdell said accused was sentenced to a year's imprisonment last July on a charge of vagrancy. He was working with a gang When he made good his escape, and remained at liberty until arrested a day later. The magistrate sentenced accused to a year’s imprisonment, to be served at the expiration of his present term.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 950, 17 April 1930, Page 18
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102SENTENCE DOUBLED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 950, 17 April 1930, Page 18
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