THREE YOUTHS ESCAPE
DISAPPEARANCE FROM CELLS BREAK THROUGH IRON NETTING (By Telegraph.—Press Association) TIMARU, Friday Three youths, Frank Dixon (19), Garfield Smith (17), and Claude Hill (17), appeared in the Timaru Police Court yesterday on charges of breaking and entering and theft, and also of unlawfully converting motor-cars. They were remanded in custody until Monday, but about 9 o'clock to-night, when the police visited the cell they found it empty. The youths had forced a way through the iron netting over a space in the exercise yard and escaped. Th'ere was no trace of them at a late hour to-night.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 10
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100THREE YOUTHS ESCAPE Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 10
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