NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL ESCAPES.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 October 1919, Page 2

NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL ESCAPES.

AN UNENVIABLE DISTINCTION.

AUCKLAND, Oct. .1

A rather notorious criminal, named R. D. Warden, who; although-‘only 26 years of age, has, been convicted enough times to gain the distinction of having “Habitual” after his name on the police records, managed to _escape from Mt.. Eden Gaol a couple of nights ago, and is still at large. Warden comes from the Sotuh——at least, his last conviction, five years ago, was recorded at the Cathedral City, and he was sent up to ‘Auckland towork out the term which is carried by being declared an habitual criminal. He has over sixteen previous convictions against his name, most of them for crimes allied to the professional theif, and one for escaping from custody. Two nights ago he managed to cut out one of the bars of his cell, and, getting through the opening, he escaped from the gaol_ precincts, and his address at present is as indefinite as that of the other famous criminal Christie, who is still being looked for by the police and asylum authorities.