PRISONER ESCAPES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 292, 19 May 1915, Page 4

PRISONER ESCAPES.

i'KOM KKYY PLYMOUTH GAOL. STILL AT LIBERTY, A prisoner, minted John Findlay escaped i i-oni the New I'lymoutb, Gaol, during Monday nigiit, ond at an. early horn- tins morning was still at liberty findlay was last seen in lug ce ll Bt ' J'-"'; ° u M"'»lay, and was miemi i when the cell was visited at 0.4S am yesterday. The prisoner had, apparent ly, smijraltd a knife into his cell, and with the an of it he had forced the lock o the door of the ceii, H 0 then »I«'i,cd « window, nnd was able ..to get through the oars, thus escaping. As soon as the prisoner's escape was discover,!,! a search party of wardora was deviatehed, and all pojiee station* were notified. Findlliy, who is so ycarg of : . f » f ttf'"» °«'W- *'i"sli complexion, witk brow,, liair, grey eyes and a large nose lie w.itm a moustache, and is 10gt. 41b in wwght. lie was arrested some tima ago,for the murder of Renni», a school master at Papakaio, but wai acquitted. I!<'" was, however, sentono*d to five, yeans' imprisonment for burglary in eon nection with the same cr* e , and waa declared an habitual criminal He had" h«en , n the Xow Ply raQßtb . f * some years.