CINEMA FEATS BY ESCAPEE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 19

CINEMA FEATS BY ESCAPEE

>The Huddersfield police had an exciting but fruitless chase- recently after a convict who had- mado his"*cscape from Walton Gaol, Liverpool. The man, who was serving a, term, of cix months' imprisonment, was scon to drop from a lorry. He was wearing prison trousers, jersey, and boot«, with a stolen jacket and cap, and the police immediately gave chase. A police officer came noar to him in Chapel, but Harbin made a great bound over a wall. This flying leap landed him in the middle of the river Colne, states a "Manchester Guardian" report of th« happening. The water reached up to his neck, but, divesting, himself of the coat and cap, which floated down the stream, he waded to the opposite bank. There he was confronted with a high wall, and with great agility he' climbod up a high fall pipe and co reached the roof of a large mill. _ He crossed a number of roofs in this neighbourhood, whilst the police maintained a pursuit as best they could along the streets below. Harbin reached the ground in. St. Thomas's street after a fall of about 20 feet. . A little later his pursuers caught sight, of him. in Hope street, and ho was tracked down to the Yews Hill district, where, however, the man successfully eluded his pursuers. He waa later reported to have been seen in the Blackmoor-foot district, about throe miles away, apparently making for the moors botween Hudderfifielcl and the Lancashire border. The arrows on his prison garments appeared to have been smeared over with clay. The police continued their search, but were handicapped by fog.