BID FOR LIBERTY.
PRISONER FROM PAPARUA.
ABSENT AT ROLL-CALL;
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ~ ICRRISTCHURCH, Friday,
A prisoner, Timothy Edward Cosgrove, escaped from the Paparua prison tliis evening. ,' ' The 'discovery"-was made about six o'clock when the roll was called: He has not yet "been recaptured. Cosgrove had been working by himself in ths'-stables attached to the prison. ■He was l a parole prisoner, and not under close supervision: .He is 47 years of age and 6ft Sin in-height. . was sentenced to three years' imprisonment -in- May .for- theft. On stole a hag containing th e < wages of employees of a saw-' am m the Longwood district, Southland, ae stole; the: bag from the mill locomouve while the man in charge was off :fiW Pardi jCosgrove was arrested at Round Hill, two days after the. robbery.' tne money was recovered except £47.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 187, 9 August 1930, Page 13
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