JUMP FROM EXPRESS
ESCORTED PRISONER CHARGE OF ESCAPING P.A. PALMERSTON N., this day. Jumping from the Napier-Wel-lington express yesterday at one o'clock, just after it moved off from the Palmerston North station, James Trevor Morgan, formerly of Palmerston North, who was being escorted by a warder, made his escape. He was at liberty till about seven o'clock last evening, when he was rearrested.
On Tuesday, Morgan had been sentenced at Napier to 12 months' imprisonment on a charge of having converted a motor car valued at £500. In the Police Court to-day Morgan was remanded to Wellington on a charge of escaping from custody.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 199, 23 August 1945, Page 6
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