JUMP FROM A TRAIN.
I PRISONER QUICKLY RECAPTURED. By Telegr.inli.—Press Association. Auekliuu'l, Last Night. The prisoner, William Frederick Murray, who achieved notoriety by escaping from Mount Eden fiaol early in ■Tnnnary, created a sensation on the Wellington express to Auckland, whither lie was hein« returned under escort, by jumping from the train as ii. was Hearing Auckland yesterday afternoon. He took a desperate risk by jnmpinf; from a carriage lavatory window when the train was travelling at full speed close to the Middlcmore golf links at the Mangere, crossing, and while lucky in escaping serious injury, he was' so knocked about, and shaken hy the fall that he was not able to set far from the line before one of the escorting warders got back there and recaptured him
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1920, Page 5
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129JUMP FROM A TRAIN. Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1920, Page 5
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