ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY.
PRISONER ELUDES WARDER. By Teleirraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Received Dec. 6, 8.49 p.m. London, Dee. 5. Eric Martin, an Australian engineer, was being taken from Salisbury to Winchester to await trial on a charge of stealing a motor car. when he escapea from the police. He dashed along the platform of the Winchester station and jumped the railway lines, though a pair cf handcuffs were dangling from his left wrist. The warder and a spectator were close on his heels, but Martin outran both and escaped. There is no trace of him.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1922, Page 5
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96ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY. Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1922, Page 5
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