A DRAMATIC ESCAPE
PRISONER IN WIFE'S CLOTHING.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.— COPTRIGST.)
(AUSTRALIAN • NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
: (Received 10th August, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 9th August. A dramatic escape occurred at San Sebastian (Spain). Commandant Alzugaray was senving a sentence of eighteen years' imprisonment in Fort Maria Cristma- for his share in the Melilla disaster in 1921. His wife visited him in his cell, and a warder later found only the woman there; the husband had "one The wife had entered • wearing two dresses, and it was Alzugaray who had left, disguised in the outer dress, instead o» his wife. It is conjectured that tlie commandant went in the direction of Cape Tresforeas, where a motor-boat was awaiting.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 35, 10 August 1923, Page 7
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116A DRAMATIC ESCAPE Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 35, 10 August 1923, Page 7
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