STINIE MORRISON AGAIN.
PLOT TO ESCAPE DISCOVERED
(Per Press Association—Copyright)
(Received November 26, 5.20 a.m.)
LONDON, November .25. . Warders at Parkhurst Prison noticed Stinie Morrison with something in his mouth, and seized him" and extracted a piece of chewed paper. An examination of his cell disclosed pieces of brown paper, on which were written details of. an elaborate plot to escape, including the blowing-up-'of the prison wall.
Extra night guards have been placed outside.
It is further stated that Morrison, some time ago, took to hunger-striking, and was placed in irons owing to refractoriness.
[Morrison was convicted, in March, 1910, of the brutal murder of Leon Beron, a Russian, on Chapham Common, on the previous New Year's Day. He endeavoured to establish an alibi, and though he was not successful, the witnesses for the Crown, being mostly low-class foreigners, were so contradictory in their evidence that after the sentence of death was passed it was afterwards committed to one of penal •servitude for life.]
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8725, 26 November 1913, Page 2
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