NINETY PRISONERS ESCAPE
BUT ARE RE-CAPTURED. (Received Last 'Night, 11.20 o'clock.) LISBON, March 13. Ninety prisoners escaped from gaol in the province of Minso by digging.a tunnel to the beach. They seized a large fishing boat and threw fifteen of the crew into the sea. ' forcing them t» swim two miles to the A gttnihoat pursued and sank the' boat. Eighty-itwo prisoners were re-cap-tured, and eight were drowned.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10583, 14 March 1912, Page 5
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68NINETY PRISONERS ESCAPE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10583, 14 March 1912, Page 5
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