A DARING DEED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9616, 9 October 1909, Page 5

A DARING DEED.

LOCK-UP BROKEN INTO. A PRISONER RELEASED. By Telegraph—Press Associ in. CHRISTCHURCH, October 8. During the nUht or early this morning the ftaiapoi lock-up n ar the Post Office and Police Station, was broken into and a prisoner named Galtagh r, whom the police had arrested un the pravioua evening for using obscene language was forcibly released. t . The affair was a most daring one, as there are thre<? residences occupied within a chain or so of the lock-up, The building i@ a stro-g brick structure, enclosed in a high galvanised iron fence at the rear of the Courthouse. It contains ttfo cells, the doors o£ which are secured by iron bars, padlocked, and the outer door is locked up in a similar manner. Constables Ho'mes and Mathea, who had placed the man in the cell, we're about till atter midnight, and the raid and prison-breaking must have taken place between then and 6 a.m. to day. The rescue party is believed to include three or four of the prisoners' companions, who removed by f.rce the fastenings of the Joors, using probably a bar of iron or similar instrument.