ESCAPE FROM BORSTAL
(By Telegraph,—Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL, This Day.
An inmato of the Borstal Institution, named William Howell, who was serving a period of three years' reformative treatmout, escaped to-day, about 2 p.m. He was working with several others on the edge of the bush on the Borstal farm, near the ;• If links, collecting fencing posts and manuka scrub. His absence was not noticed for some lime. Eiylit officers from the institution and four constables are now searching for him at Otatarn, where he was seen in tho vicinity of the golf links by a resident. As he had a good hour's start it is possible that some time will elapso: before he is recaptured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 1, 1 July 1926, Page 11
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115ESCAPE FROM BORSTAL Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 1, 1 July 1926, Page 11
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