THE CAREER OF ELLIS.
A PAST PRISON" BREAKING EPISODE RECALLED. (Per Press Association.) CIIIUSTCIHRCH, Feb. 15. Ellis, the To Awaite murderer, was onco a prisoner In the Lyltelton Buol, and the locol authorities .-.ay it was he who assisted Jonathan I Roberts to escape some yenrs ago «>y means ok' a hole cut in a galvanised iron hut. I (Jonathan Roberts, imprisoned for forgery and uttering, first at Tii.m;ru, and sut.saxiueqitly nt Ripa Island,, in Lyttolton Harbour, twice escaped from cusitody. On thu first occasion ho simply walked out of the limaru &W] i. On the second he swam from Ripa Island to the mainland and was never recaptured.)
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7740, 16 February 1905, Page 2
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109THE CAREER OF ELLIS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7740, 16 February 1905, Page 2
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