ESCAPE INQUIRY
(N.Z. Preu Association)
AUCKLAND, Feb. 26.
The inquiry ordered by the Minister of Justice (Mr Hanan) into the armed escape of three inmates from Auckland prison earlier this month has been completed. Mr A. A. Coates, S.M., who conducted the inquiry, is now preparing his report which will be sent to the Minister in about 10 days. The escapers, who for a time held three people hostage, were John Frederick Gillies, serving a life sentence and long-sentence prisoners, George Wilder and Leonard Edwin Evans.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30686, 27 February 1965, Page 22
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