DASH FOR LIBERTY.
DARING ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM GAOL. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, June 19. Two prisoners at Lyttelton gaol, named R. McCarthy and A. Rawson, made a daring but unsuccessful attempt to escape this afternoon. With the aid of a long rope, which they had manufactured out of bits of calico, they dropped over the high outer wall of the gaol, and made off along an adjoining thoroughfare. The warder on the watch-tower saw the men escaping, but he did not fire for fear of hitting the children in the school playground below. The gaoler and - warder pursued the fugitives, and captui'ed them in j. private yard not far from the gaol. * McCarthy has escaped twice before and has been declared a habitual criminal. Raws'on, who came from Australia in 1902, is at present serving a sentence of five years for burglary.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8469, 20 June 1907, Page 5
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143DASH FOR LIBERTY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8469, 20 June 1907, Page 5
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