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PRISONER’S DASH FROM ESCORT [ Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Feb. 22. While being escorted by a police constable from the Magistrate's Court at Wellington to the central police station to-day, a young man who had pleaded guilty to a number of charges of breaking, entering and theft and had been committed ;o the Supreme Court for sentence, made a sudden dash for liberty. With a constable and detective close on his heels, the fugitive raced down to the waterfront and entered the wharves near the Lyttelton berth. His liberty was short, however, and within a few minutes of having made his escape he was arrested by a wharf constable.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 8
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110BRIEF LIBERTY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 8
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