ESCAPE FROM MOUNT EDEN.
THE CONVICT ROBINSON AGAIN
AT LARGE,
The notorious criminal, Isaac Robinson, again managed to ( fleet his escape from Mount Eden Gaol on,Thursday afternoon. It will he remembered that on a previous occasion he also managed to get dear, and that after his escape he went to a settler’s house, and brutally assaulted, and then robbed him. After being at large a short time, however, lie was re-captured and sent hack to prison, after standing his trial for the escape, and getting an extra term of penal servitude. He was originally convicted of a highway robbery with violence, and is, or rather was, yesterday, undergoing a term of sixteen years’ penal servitude. ' Ilis latest escape was effected in a very ingenious manner. By some means or other not very clearly explained, lie managed to get possession of a warder’s suit, of clothes ; and, dressed in these, lie seemed to have passed scot-free beyond the precincts of the gaol. But it was not long before ho was missed; tlis police authorities were communicated with, and men sent in pursuit in all directions. Up to a late hour last night, he had not been re-captured. There will, no doubt, he a strict inquiry into the manner of his escape. — Jlerald.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 142, 23 March 1872, Page 3
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211ESCAPE FROM MOUNT EDEN. Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 142, 23 March 1872, Page 3
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