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BREAK FROM WAIKERIA PRISONER'S BID FOR LIBERTY RECAPTURED AT TE KUITI An audacious but short-lived bid for liberty was made by R. J. Mann, a prisoner serving a two-year sentence in the Waikeria Borstal Institute when, leaving a gang with which he was working in one of the Institute’s fields this morning, he climbed a fence •nd quickly disappeared. A warder gave chase but was unable to catch him. None of the other members of the gang attempted to break away. The prisoner, apparently reached the main road, gamed a lift as far as dtorohanga in a lorry where he is alleged to have taken possession of a motor car which he drove to Te Kuiti. The car was found at Te Kuiti this afternoon and the prisoner apprehended and returned to the Institute.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20507, 25 May 1938, Page 6
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137STOP PRESS NEWS Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20507, 25 May 1938, Page 6
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