Not Happy In Gaol
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter) BIERA, Mozambique. A prisoner awaiting trial for car theft left a garrulous note to the prison authorities before escaping. “I am not happy in this place,” the note said. “I am am forced to leave.” He was back in prison after 24 hours of exuberant freedom.
His note wished the prison director, the warden, his assistant and all the police in the prison a “peaceful death." It was signed Serafim Jesus Cardosa. Cardosa broke out with four other men, two of them Rhodesians. They bent the bars of a prison window and lowered themselves to the ground with sheets. All frontier posts were warned. The five men were arrested in a car at Rotanda, near the Southern Rhodesian border, and returned to Beira.
In his note, Cardosa said that if the police tried to recapture him, the prison director would “have an unhappy. feeling."
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30396, 21 March 1964, Page 5
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