ESCAPE FROM PRISON
TWO MEN COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, April 5. Two prisoners who recently escaped from Auckland Prison were this morning charged with thefts from three dwellings in addition to the offences arising from gaol-breaking. They were Hugh Simons and Sam Repia. The Justices were told the story of how the men jumped over a fence at the gaol quarry into the Grammar School grounds and made their way by a side street to a house, where they stole clothing and left their prison clothes behind. Later, at Panmure, they entered another house and took more clothing. From there they went to a third place, a Chinese market gardener’s, where Simons took a suit of clothes, a Chinese 10-dollar note, and £3. They intended to make their way to the Waikato, but at Otahuhu they entered a hotel, and were picked up by the police. Both the prisoners were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23915, 6 April 1943, Page 6
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