ESCAPE OF PRISONERS
TWO MEN AT LARGE JUMP FROM GAOL WINDOW. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. There was a sensational escape from the Dunedin Gaol shortly after 11 o'clock this morning. Two prisoners, Allan Aitchison (who was sentenced on Friday to five years’ hard labor for assaulting and causing grievous bodily harm to a constable in August last) and Arthur Plunkett (a one-armed man, who was sentenced to "three years’ reformative treatment for forging and uttering), broke the lock in the exercising yard of the gaol and jumped from a window a distance of 25 feet to the garden below, and made good their escape. Both men were seen about twelve o’clock passing through one of the back streets m the city, but they have not since been seen.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1921, Page 4
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