ESCAPE FROM PRISON
N.S. W. CRIMINALS*
CONFEDERATES OUTSIDE. JEMMY TO FORCE LOCKS. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. As a result of assistance from some person or persons outside, two prisoners escaped from Wcllongong_Gaol. The police found that several bars had been forced from an iron grille which surmounts the wall of the exercise yard, making an opening through which a man could easily wriggle. The helper then apparently walked along a short passage to the ceils of his friends and supplied them with a jemmy, with which the locks of the doors were broken. The same instrument was used to force the back door of the gaol, through which the prisoners gained their freedom. Immediately the authorities were notified of the escape, all police stations in the State were warned. The men were later recaptured at Gosford, nearly 100 miles away. Their boots were, almost torn to pieces. They said that although their had received occasional lifts, their feet were blistered. They offered little resistance when discovered.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 93, 30 January 1928, Page 5
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