MADE SKELETON KEY
Prisoner’s Escape From Gaol
(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, April 5.
A prisoner in the Dunedin gaol, who used a toothbrush to fashion a skeleton key and escape from the prison, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin today before Mr J. D. Willis, SAI. The prisoner, Jack Joseph Curson, alias John Alan Chapman, aged 35, was charged with escaping from lawful custody. Curson had escaped from the gaol on Sunday night, said Inspector C. A. G. Mcßae. The police had searched for him all day yesterday, finally finding him in an unoccupied house in Moray place at 6.50 p.m. Curson told the Magistrate that he had been arrested on Thursday and allowed bail. After taking up the bail, he was immediately rearrested. Charged on Saturday with the theft of £721 10s in Auckland on May 16, 1958, he had again been allowed bail, Curson said. But the chief detective had refused to accept his surety, saying he wanted to see the “colour of the money.” As he had a number of things he wanted to do, he had escaped.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29173, 6 April 1960, Page 23
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