TWO YEARS’ HARD.
ESCAPED FROM CUSTODY. (Per Press Association). 'WELLINGTON, August 28. William Henry Charles McKay, 29 years of age, who jumped from a train at Mercer on August 5, when being brought by warders from Christchurch to Auckland to . serve a. sentence of six months’ imprisonment, was sentenced to-day by Mr Justice Herdman to two years’ hard labour for escaping from lawful custody.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 272, 29 August 1933, Page 7
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