CUNNING ESCAPE OF GERMAN INTERNED PRISONER
, BRIEF SPELL OF LIBERTY. London, May 29. Lieutenant Thelen, a Germjin prisoner, escaped from Chelmsford Gaol. Ho had previously made sensational escapes from Donington Hall in 1915, and at Maidenhead Camp in 191 G. On Saturday night Thelen was apparently locked safely in a cell. A warder saw him and his companion asleep throughout the night. Really two dummies occupied the beds. Dummy padlocks made of cardboard replaced the locks of tho cell after they had been picked. Thelen also picked the locks in tbo corridor and tho gate of tho gaol yard. Ho and his companion climbed a wall, but a cyclist pursued them and found them hiding chin-deep in water—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3098, 31 May 1917, Page 5
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120CUNNING ESCAPE OF GERMAN INTERNED PRISONER Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3098, 31 May 1917, Page 5
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