ESCAPED PRISONER
RECAPTURED AFTER DESPERATE
STRUGGLE.
(United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable As*n.) LONDON, 9th June.
A huge crowd at Houndsditch witnessed a thrilling struggle between four detectives and Sidney Marks, who made a sensational escape from Pentonville last October. Marks was not overpowered until two officers had been injured, one severely. Sixty police were employed as a cordon.
Sidney Marks and Arthur Bacon escaped from Pentonville while painting the roof of the prison hospital, and the former was not recaptured. The men occupied adjoining cells on the fourth floor of the prison, and each possessed a pair of scissors for the purpose of his work. They removed bricks from the wall and made a hole which they crawled through, and, having tied sheets and portions of clothing into a rope, dropped to the ground in the darkness. They then climbed a twentyfoot wall and escaped.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 138, 11 June 1926, Page 7
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147ESCAPED PRISONER Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 138, 11 June 1926, Page 7
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