BREAK FROM GAOL
ACCUSED MEN IN COURT
ACTION BY GRAND JURY
ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE THROWN OUT.
•By Telegraph -Press Association * AUCKLAND. This Day
A liberal use Of the right to challenge jurymen was made by the prisoners who were charged in the Supreme Court today, before Mr Justice Blair, that on October 1 they escaped from tli!- Auckland Gaol by violen' means, and that they rendered three warders incapable <*l resistance The accused included John Henry Silva, against whom there had been charge of attempted murder of a warder, hut on the suggestion of the Judge the Grand Jury ii.id thrown out the atiempti'd murrlt r ( hm" ■ Siiv; - pleaded guilty to the two. remainmg charges. Thi accused, Allan Roy Dull. Bryan .lame Oheb.ir. Randall Smith ami David Wat pk-aded l; o| guilty Dull w.e; lem-escnl'd bv c umi l \lr W Noble. Smith exerci .<1 his right to ch:*llem-.< jui yim n to the Dumber , l w. lili ch.'dlengi d lit! and Dull i h:-i--leiireii two, evi-.y 'ceoml jtiryma;! : ilh d Ii ;. ch; I lon", - ;l B( i- " (he iw.moi. n.mm.-iicid tin'my. c.itm-.t 1 . ml J (!l | ; ,• ,i,- ; | ip, ’.II. bUlldmg m Un- po,.e ~f 'qj'.' ,'p
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1941, Page 6
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