CONVICT TRIES TO ESCAPE.
ANOTHER WOUNDS' HIMSELF. (BY TELEGRAM.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
, Chrlstchuroh, May 21. Tho prisoner Frederick JFfall, who was yesterday sontenccd to imprisonment for life for attempted murder, toro up a blanket in his cell whilo awaiting trial, and mado from it a ropo, which lie presumably intended to use in an attempt to cscaoe.. The attompt;. however, was frustrated.
■It." ,is ; understood that the prisoner, Philip White, who is at present-serving a sentonce of-:eight years for 11 holding up" Mr. White's. jeweller's sliop in Christohurch some two or three years ago, is to be sent to Sunnyside Mental Hospital as being mentally deficient. Ho inflicted a serious ■ wound on himself wtyli a knife last night, but' was reported' to bo progressing favourably this morning. : • . .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 204, 22 May 1908, Page 8
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