A PRISONER'S ESCAPE.
(P-JCSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM)
WELLINGTON, January 24. Archibald John McNeil, who was serving a sentence in tlie Terrace GaoJ for, a couple of months back, obtaining money on fafse pretences, escaped yesterday morning. At about eleven o'clock he was in the yard in charge of a warder, when he bolted down the hill and escaped attention. He was seen making tor the gully at the back of the gaol, and evidently hid himself amongst tho scrub thero, with tho intention of getting clear away from the prison. McNeil has broken bounds before, at the time when ho waa deemed to bo an habitual criminal, and was on probation v« » Government farm in Taranaki. He then got clear away, and reached Wellington, where he was alleged to have committed tho further offence of procuring money by false pretences. Subsequently he was arrested and _cnt to gaol on the sentence which he has been nerving. Dp to this afternoon tho escapee had not been recaptured. He was seen in Woolcombe street, not far from the gaol, at ten o'clock last night.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13331, 25 January 1909, Page 4
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181A PRISONER'S ESCAPE. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13331, 25 January 1909, Page 4
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