PRISONER ESCAPES
PAROLE MAN MISSING AT ROLL-CALL IN GAOL FOR THEFT Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. A prisoner, Timothy Edward Cosgrove, escaped from the Paparua prison this evening. The discovery was made about six o’clock, when the roll was called. He has not yet been recaptured. Cosgrove had been working by himself in the stables attached to the prisoner. He was a parole prisoner and not under close supervision. He is 47 years of age and 6ft 3in in height. Cosgrove was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in May for theft. On February 16 he stole a bag containng £4OO, the wages of employees of a sawmill in the Longwood district. Southland. He stole the bag from the mill locomotive while the man in charge was off his guard. Cosgrove was arrested at Hound Hill, Southland, two days after the robbery. All the money was recovered except £47.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1046, 9 August 1930, Page 1
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