ESCAPE FROM PRISON
Two Men Plead Guilty
By Telegraph—Press xVssociatiou. Clii’istcliurcli, September 13.
As a sequel io an attempt to escape from Paparua Prison on September 8, Philip Daniel Trainor, labourer, aged 24, and John Henry Wilson, labourer, aged 25, pleaded guilty to-day to a charge of escaping from the prison and were committed for sentence.
The escape was described by Reginald Coles, prison warder, who said that the two men, when working in a shingle pit at 4.25 p.m. last Wednesday, dropped their tools and bolted from the top of the pit. Coles gave chase on a bicycle, and a sentry gave the filarm. Coles saw the prisoners enter the freezing works, and later, with the police and warders, located Trainor and Wilson inside. They hid in a tallow vat and later climbed to the rafters from where they were dislodged by a fire-hose.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 299, 14 September 1937, Page 18
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