MENTAL PATIENT AT LARGE.
Jumps From Train • Auckland, Jau ;!t) Joseph Thomas Christie who escaped lrom tho Avnndalc mental iu>«i>i*al was captured nt l' ;l toa cm? taken to Wellington and ch,rged there with theft etc He was beia-; convoynd to Auckland by »ho M-tiu Trunk uxprew tbw morning in company with another prisoner m charge of two cwMnhhs, and as the train was oppryad.in-r the suburbs Cliiistio asked pornri^i'ou b ohter tho lavatory, which was, rantel bhortly-suspicion w.i* ar<)iis«.;i ail 1 investigation H hovred that Christie had got through Hi,* lavatory ivnfiw acd eecipeJ. The train WOB Roiop slowly' at the time, an.l tho pHduner w»i probably Uuinjured. y.j far tlioro i.« no troce of him.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6970, 1 February 1918, Page 2
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117MENTAL PATIENT AT LARGE. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6970, 1 February 1918, Page 2
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