A DASH FOR LIBERTY.
' SUPPOSED FATAL ENDING.. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Dec. 22. While Trooper C. Wilson was .being escorted to the quarantine island yesterday, he escaped from the custody of the military police. In the evening he was seen under the influence of liquor at Port Chalmers, at a boat-shed, where Henry Percy kept a dinghy. Later a man in a dinghy was seen to be in difficulties, but when assistance reached the spot the dinghy was found half-full of j water and the occupant had disappeared. (A search was wade for the body then and resumed to-day iinavailingly. In the boat-shed was found a soldier's tunic with documents bearing the name of 0. Wilson, also three £1 notes and a silver watch.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 December 1917, Page 2
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124A DASH FOR LIBERTY. Taranaki Daily News, 26 December 1917, Page 2
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