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A Bolt for Liberty.

(By Telegraph —Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Two prisoners at Lyttelton Gaol, R. McCarthy and A. Rawson, made a daring but unsuccessful, attempt to escape on Wednesday afternoon. With the aid of a long rope which they had manufactured out 6f bits of calico, they dropped over the high outer wall of the gaol, and made off along an adjoining thoroughfare. The warder on the watchtower saw the men escaping, but did not fire foi fear of hitting the children in a school playground below. The gaoler and warders pursued the fugitives and captured them in a private yard, not far from the gaol. McCarthy has escaped twice before, and has been declared an habitual criminal. Rawson. who came from Australia in 1902, is at present serving a sentence o five years for burglary.

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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43108, 22 June 1907, Page 2

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A Bolt for Liberty. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43108, 22 June 1907, Page 2

A Bolt for Liberty. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43108, 22 June 1907, Page 2

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