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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 245, 6 March 1913, Page 7

The story of a Liverpool man's escapade was told to tlie London aml NorthWestern Railway Police at Crewe on December '2S. Shortly after midnight a railway shunter working oil the great network of railways south of Crewe.noticed a figure crawling between the coaches of a stationary (rain, and on approaching it he found it was a man with only a portion of a shirt covering his shoulders. lie was bleeding profusely. His legs were lacerated from the thighs to the ankles, and there were several deep gashes across his face and neck. The railway police were sent for, ami detectives convoyed him to the police, .station. lie gave his name as Harry Kay, Shenstone street. Edge Hill. Liverpool and told a remarkable story. He was walking to Liverpool on the 28th ult.. lie said, and stayed at a lodginghouse in Nantwieh for the night. He put his boots out to be cleaned, and affer getting into bed heard, somebody talking about the dirty state of them, and suggested they should take them away., He got up. and decided to leave, and asked for the return of his money, ■hut, this was refused. lie then appealed to the police, and as it was midnight they took him to the workhouse. In the night he thought he heard the same men concocting a story to do him injurv. and he got up anil escaped. He was. however, seen by the police, who escorted him back, and lie was put, in the cells. An hour later tin* female nurses' quarters wore aroused by the continuous ringing of the bell and knocking at the door. Looking through the window, they saw Kay stripped of all his clothing. They raised an alarm, and the nan ran away. lie climbed over the •emetery rails, and became almost impaled. He succeeded in extricating himself. and rushed over the graves. ITe crawled through many hedges and ditches, and his arms and legs were terribly torn by thorns. At Willaston he got on the railway, and in his bare feet *an along the rough macadam ballast for nearly three miles. Oil the way he met three trains, and had to cling to the side of the embankment. A signalman saw the man rushing madly along the line, and was powerless to stop hint. Reaching the great, goods junction at Crewe, he ran about among the moving trains, climbing over them and crawling beneath waggons. When he arrived at the police station he was in a terribly emaciated and exhausted condition. How lie got, out of the cells at Xiuitwich is remarkable. The window was cut away, but, the aperture remaining was scarely enough (<> admit, his Ilea .t through.