ESCAPE FROM DUNEDIN GAOL.
TWO PRISONERS AT LARGE. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DtNEDIN, November 6. A sensational escape was made from Dunedin gaol shortly after 11 o'clock this merning. Two prisoners—Allan Aitcheson, who was sentenced yesterday ,to fire years' imprisonment with hard labour for assaulting and causing grievous bodily harm to a < constable in August last, and Arthur Plunkett, a one-armed man who was sentenced to three years' reformative treatment for forging and uttering—broke a lock in the exercising yard of tho gaol and jumped from a window a distance of 25ft to the garden below, and made good their escape. Both men were seen about 12 o clock passing through one of tho back streets in the city. They have not since been seen.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17296, 7 November 1921, Page 6
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