ESCAPE BID FAILS
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 11. ' An escape bid by two remand prisoners at Auckland Prison this afternoon was| halted when one of the men ■ fell about 20ft from an inside wall and broke a leg. | The man, Benjamin Rata, aged 17, was later admitted to Middlemore Hospital where his condition tonight was satisfactory. The other prisoner, whose name was' not released by prison authorities, was caught I inside the main prison walls, t
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31835, 13 November 1968, Page 8
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