GENERAL TELEGRAMS
AN ESCAPED PRISONER. FROM WELLINGTON GAOL. WELLINGTON, March 19. John Dome who was sentenced to five years in August of last year for an assault on a girl, escaped from the Terrace gaol on Saturday. It is surmised that he succeeded in making his His absence was not immediately noticed. Enquiries disclosed that he was seen in Brooklyn. A party of police and detectives was dispatched to try and trace the runawav T , and the country between Terawhiti and Brooklyn is being scoured. It appears the man was able to change his prison garb soon after leaving prison. How this was accomplished is not known, but it is rumoured he stuck up a man and forced him to part with his coat. The convict up to the present is still at large.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 19 March 1917, Page 4
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134GENERAL TELEGRAMS Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 19 March 1917, Page 4
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