PRISONER ESCAPES FROM PAPARUA
SEARCH BY POLICE UNSUCCESSFUL
No trace has been found so far of Gordon Ernest Waller, a prisoner who escaped from the Paparua prison about 8.30 p.m. on Sunday. Extra police were drafted for a search as soon as notification of the escape was
received, and inquiries are being continued, but so* far no reports have been made indicating in which direction Waller made his escape. » Waller, who has served six months of a sentence of three years’ imprisonment for breaking and entering, was acting as a medical orderly at the prison when he made his escape. He was last seen at 8 p.m., and he was missing from his cell at 8.30 p.m. He had access to the kitchen, and it is thought likely that he made his escape from a window and down a roof. It was very dark on Sunday night. It is not known whether Wallqr has yet had an opportunity of changing the prison clothes he was wearing just before his escape.
Waller is 28 years old, sft 9|in in height, of medium build, with an olive complexion, brown hair, and eyes, and he weighs about 11 stone.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26967, 17 February 1953, Page 10
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