GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1918, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

ESCAPE 01? A PRISONER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Cliristcliuneh, Last Night. Robert Dickson Warden, a prisoner serving a "sentence ox »'Our years' imprisonment lor burglary and also an indeterminate senlxtlice, escaped from Ternpleton Gaol yesterday. During a heavy fog lie go t away at 7.30 a.m., wearing prison eloihes, and is still at large. He belongs to CJiristehurch. THE SESITION CASES. Wellington, Last Night. Owing to tli© inability of eome Ministers to be in Wellington on jMonday, the meeting of Calbinet to deal with, the petition for the remission of the sentetncSes in the Oiristctiiiron sedition eases wall 'A SENTENCE QUASHED. Auckland, Last Night. Ta tHo Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Cooper quashed the sentence of Two months' imprisonment passed by Mr. Frazer, S.M., on Walter Preston on Felbruary 8. on a charge that, being a bookmaker, he did bet on Talcapuna course. The ground of appeal was that the conviction was against the weight of evidence. His Honor said the case was highly suspicious, but the evidence had not established thait'degree of compara* tive certainty to Jma enabled Mm to hold that Preston actually did bet on the day in question, not be held until Tuesday.