ESCAPED CONVICTS.
(rasas association tet._ge__.) WELLINGTON, April 25. Two prisoners, named Arthur Rawson (undergoing twenty-one months*' imprisonment for breaking and entering at Palmerston North) and James Atkinson (serving three' years for housebreaking and theit at Wanganui), escaped from Terrace Gaol on Saturday or early on Sunday morning. Atkinson had previously escaped from Wanganui Gaol. The escapees were caught about 11 o'clock to-night by Detective Cassells near Johnsonvilie.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11877, 26 April 1904, Page 7
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