PRISONER ESCAPES
(P.A.) INVERCARGILL, May 20. “The prisoner cannot be found,” said the Crown Prosecutor (Mr H. J. Macalister) in the Supreme Court when Mr Justice Kennedy ordered Stanley Wilfred Leigh to come forward to stand trial on a charge of attempting to escape from a Borstal Institution. Leigh’s escape from the hospital at the institution took place overnight. It was discovered this morning that he was missing, and it is thought he sawed through the bars on a window to get out. Previously the prisoner had concealed himself in a sump at the Borstal, and after dark had climbed on to the roof, where he was later found and placed in custody It was in respect of this escapade that the accused was to appear in Court to-day for trial.
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Press, Volume LXXXIIi, Issue 25189, 21 May 1947, Page 9
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