"PYJAMA" DALE.
GIVES HIMSELF UP. DRAMATIC END TO SEARCH. (Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, May 28. Eight months after he escaped 111 his pyjamas from a London hospital, where he had been sent for an operation while on remand, Jon Dale, 30-year-old Australian clerk, strolled casually into Marylebone police station this week and surrendered to an inspector. Dale was remanded in custody last September on a charge of being concerned with another man in stealing by a confidence trick £IQOO. Taken to Brixton prison. London, he was almost immediately transferred to hospital for an appendicitis operation. Before it [ could be performed, how ever, the man who was to become known throughout the world as "Pyjama" Dale disappeared. "I have not escaped," he wrote to the police. "I have only granted myself bail so that I cmn collect evidence to prove my innocence." To get his evidence he went to America and Africa, said bis counsel this week. Bail was granted in two sureties of * *500 each.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 139, 15 June 1938, Page 12
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