ESCAPE FROM GAOL.
(special to "the peess.") GREYMOFrii, April 18. The hospitality dispensed at the Greymouth gaol during the Easter season, when compared with that offering outside was evidently found wanting when weighed in the balance by Thomas Sweeney. He therefore left His Majesty's bcarding-house some time during last night without saying goodbye to his guardians and is still at large. When bieakiast was taken to Sweeney's cell, ;.between sis and seven o'clock, he was missing. An investigation showed that a portion of the tire grate had beenused to prise up some floorboards opening the way to liberty. The building in which the cell is situated is raised about three feet above the ground and all Sweeney had to do was to drop through the hole, in the cell floor and get clear away, the presence of Sweeney in the Greymouth gaol was a result of a sentence of two months' imprisonment for vagrancy at Reef ton. He had served about a fortnight of the term. It is stated that- Sweeney is a type of prisoner who would not realise the seriousness of escaping from gaol.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17433, 19 April 1922, Page 8
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