PRISONERS LOST IN FOG.
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 22
A prisoner, Frank Ballar, 21 years of age, sensationally escaped from gaol yesterday morning. He .was helping to serve breakfast at 6.30 o’clock, when he was missed. Immediately afterwards a warder found a rope of blankets from the watch-tower to the wall. The prisoner dropped 50 feet and walked along the top of the wall, then dropped another 20 feet, to the soft ground, where the footprints were seen. There was a dense fog at the time, and no further trace of the prisoner was seen. The only trace is that his prison clothes were found in a house in the city, front which a suit was taken. Ballar (was sentenced at Gisborne, on June Bth, to three months’ hard labour for theft and three months for escaping from custody, to be followed by three years’ reformative treatment.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 9875, 24 July 1923, Page 8
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