LEAP FROM THE EXPRESS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1288, 17 November 1911, Page 5

LEAP FROM THE EXPRESS.

PRISONER'S ESC\PE \ND RECAPTURE. A sensational rseope from custody was effectrd on Tnosflny morning by an TMvin mined Snlvetti Tlavio (says ' tlio Auckland Herald 1 While lveinrr hroucht t/i Ai:rVlnnil by the Main Trunk express bo nvul? a flying lean from the carriage platform, bowled over oneo or twice, and then bolted for Mercer, wliieh tho train had left a few minutes earlier. Ho ran a tremendous risk in iunming, f<# tho train wa« running at a" hWi speed, and lit' was lucky in m.ikiiic his unconventional landing without serious injury. His leap for freedom was made about five a.m. It did not avail him lnn». for he wns ve-c-nptured in tho afternoon by Constable Sherman. It aptienrs tliot nnon leaving Mercer tho prisoner and his custodian shifted from the carnage in. which (hey had bo-n established to reach nno having a lavatory, Dario went ahead, mir-.hod the nlptfnrni, jumped from tho train. Constable, Hodgson sent messages back (o the district as .soon as ho eould, and a search was b:\iruii. Tiifonnation was received at Auckland that (ho prisoner was seen on the road near Tunkan, and instructions were ut once issued to several constables in the. districts along tho railway line lo join in a search.' Constable Sherman, of Kllcrslic. was one of those deputed for this duty. Arriving at: Ofalmliu. (he constable was proceeding along the Great South Road at"about four p.m., when he saw two men aoproaching near St. Ann's Bridge, in (he* vicinity of Sylvia Park. From, (lie description that ' lia'd been Mipiilicd he recognised ono of tho men ns Dario, and at once arrested him. Dario at first showed an unwillingness to be handcuffed, but was forced io Ijow to circumstances and to go along quietly After his sensational loan from the (rain at Mercer Dario had walked all tho way to Otahulni, a distance of 31 miles.