ESCAPE FROM GAOL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1806, 23 October 1888, Page 3

ESCAPE FROM GAOL.

Chbistoht/bch, Oct. 22. This morning a Maori named Hoani Mare (John Murray), on remand on a charge of breaking into the Mandetille Hotel, Kaiapoi, on the night of the 14th instant, and stealing therefrom 17s 6d in threepenny pieoes and coppers, escaped from Addington gaol. The warder gave the prisoner his breakfast at six o'clock, and thinks be looked the door, but on visiting the c»U at 6.45 he found the door open and the man gone. By cliasbing a partition wall near the cell the prisoner could gain the roof of the male division, and get outside the gaol by taking a drop of a dozen feet. The Lyttellon Times of Friday gives the following partisulars of the charge again it Murray : From iaformation received, the police arrested a Nerth Island Miori named J. Murray, yesterday morning.He was seen on the premises ef the Mandeyille Hotel at 11 p.m. on the night of tbe burglary. The suspicious circumstances of the case are that on getting an inkling that he was likely to be wanted by the poliee, be ran away and secreted himself in some scrub on the farm of Mr H. Bevell, of Kortueku, where Constable Oartmill ran him to earth aad effected an arrest. Attention was attracted to the nan from the fact; that he had been paying his way at a local boardinghouse and elsewhtre in cains similar to those stolen, natnely, threepenny bits and coppers, and that he had been discovered by his landlord ootning out of a B*,range bedroom at an early hour that morning. From his description and name he appears to be a man who' has been recently discharged from prison in the North Island on account of horse stealing.