PRISONERS ESCAPE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 302, 15 September 1921, Page 4

PRISONERS ESCAPE

POLICE SEARCH UNAVAILING. By Telegraph — Press Association. Ashburton, September T 4. A prisoner escaped from the northIxnthd express yesterday, about 3.40 o’clock, while the train was stationary near the Ashburton cemetery. The escapee was last heard of at 5 o’clock yesterday, when he' was inquiring for clothes. He was on a bicycle, a mile from the railway. The police are still searching for the man, who was recently sentenced at Dunedin. He was proceeding in the custody of a single constable to Panama prison. The escapee is described as of light build, sft. 6in. in height, and unshaven. Dunedin, September 14. The prisoner who escaped from Ashburton was William Herbert Chapman, under sentence of six months for theft of clothing and a bicycle. ANOTHER DASH FOR LIBERTY. Jly Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerston North, September 14. Charles Henry RosobolWigh, who was arrested in Hawke’s Ray a few days ago after an exciting chaso by the police on a charge of theft at Tokomaru, escaped from custody at Palmerston North yesterday. He asked for a drink of water, and when it was given to him he made a dash past the constable and got clean away. He is still at large.