SENSATIONAL ESCAPE.
Prisoners Assault Policeman And Gain Freedom. FOUND AFTER LONG SEARCH. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY,-this day. A Bourke message states that three prisoners made a daring cscape from the Yatanbulla lock-up. When Constable Rippontook the men tea they knocked him down and brutally assaulted him, rendering him unconscious. They then escaped into the bush.^ Police on surrounding stations were immediately notified and the hunt for the escapees continued throughout the nin-ht.A tracker discovered the prisoners next day. . The police travelled over 100 miles in the course of the search.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 221, 18 September 1929, Page 7
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