ESCAPE OF PRISONER

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 16, 31 October 1935, Page 5

ESCAPE OF PRISONER

A SIMPLE RUSE EMPLOYED.

SIX MONTHS ONI TO SENTENCE.

(Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

A simple ruse was employed by William Kenneth Mailman, a labourer, aged 21, when he made his escape from Paparua Gaol on October 17. He was given permission to leave the schoolroom and just walked into the night. Mailman appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning to answer for the offence. He was , deemed to be an incorrigible rogue and was sentenced by Mr Levvey, S.M., to an additional term of six months’ gaol to his present; sentence of three years reformative detention. , ■ Senior-Sergeant Calwell said that Mailman was sentenced in Wellington in August to three years’* reformative detention on two charges of breaking and entering with theft. He was admitted to Paparua Gaol that month and: on October 17 escaped and was arrested two days later at Kaiapoi. The superintendent of the gaol (Mr Leggett) said that on the evening lie escaped Mailman was attending the institutional school. The convenience is situated outside the door of the classroom, on. the- first-floor landing. Mailman was given permission to leave the room, and he did not return. *• He must have gone downstairs, out on to the parade ground and away,’ continued' Mr Leggett. ‘.‘lt urns .quite simple. He could have walked an ay.