ESCAPE FROM CELLS
THREE YOUTHS ON REMAND IRON NETTING FORCED NO TRACE AT LATE HOUR [MY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] TIMARU, Friday Three youths, Frank Dixon, aged 19, Garfield Smith, aged 17, and Claude Hill, aged 17, appeared in the Tiinaru Police Court yesterday on charges of breaking and entering and theft, and also of unlawfully converting motorcars. They were remanded in custody until Monday, but about nine o'clock to-night, when the police visited the cell they found it empty.
The youths had forced a way through tho iron netting over a space in the exercise yard and had made good their escape. There was no trace them at a late hour to-night.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23269, 11 February 1939, Page 12
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112ESCAPE FROM CELLS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23269, 11 February 1939, Page 12
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