GAOL ESCAPEE.
ANOTHER SENTENCE. (PBBSS iSSOOIiTIOH TELBGRAM.) HAMILTON. August 28. "I am sincerely sorry for having committee) all these crimes which resulted from my escape from prison. 1 now await .sentence from your Honour, knowing full well that I am deserving of no favourable consideration." This concluded a written statement handed to Mr Justice Blair in> -the Supreme Court to-day by John Lesne Buckley, who recently made a sensational escape from Mount Eden prison and eluded the police for several weeks. Buckley pleaded guilty to charges of stealing £l4 front a Taumarunui hardware shop and breaking and entering the premises of the Farmers' Auctioneering Company at Taumarunui. In his statement, Buckley said that he had no excuse to offer. "I am heartily sick and tired of dishonesty. I have several years' imprisonment oefore me and I have resolved that during those years I shall make myself a better and more Worthy principled being. A lady member of the Howard League for Penal Reform has kindly offered to help me in this. I am only sorry such fcelp was not offered me. a few months back."
Buckley was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, tbis to follow his present term.
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Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 19401, 29 August 1928, Page 5
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198GAOL ESCAPEE. Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 19401, 29 August 1928, Page 5
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