A SECOND ESCAPE.
CAFFERY FREE AGAIN. The military prisoner, George Ciffery, who has caused the arrthoritiss some little concern by taking every opportunity to escape from, custody, evaded the surveillance of two lnembeis of the military police, a sergeant and a lance-corporal, in whoee, charge he was, yesterday afternoon, and is still at large. The publicity that has been .given Caffery dates back to February 2, -when be was arrested as an absentee from camp, in a bouse in Hobson Street, by two plain-clothes detectives. On that occasion he was discovered hiding in a chimney. He was taken to one of the forts, but the following day escaped by bending the stout iron bars outside the window of the cell in which he had been confined, and defied the authorities for five days to recapture- aim. On the sixth day he was captured by one of the same constables in the Albion Hotel, and once more handed over to the military authorities.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 51, 28 February 1918, Page 4
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162A SECOND ESCAPE. Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 51, 28 February 1918, Page 4
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