ESCAPE FROM PRISON.
CONVICT IN A BASKET. NOTE TO THE CHIEF WARDER. PARIS, Augiist 13. The chief warder in a prison at Lyons was surprised, to receive a note from a former convict reading: “I hope you will forgive me, sir, but I could not breathe in my cell. That compelled me to leave. I will return my prison clothes in due course.” Inquiries showed that the convict had escaped in a basket of linen which had been collected by a man in a motor-car.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 267, 25 August 1930, Page 6
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85ESCAPE FROM PRISON. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 267, 25 August 1930, Page 6
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