BRIEF EMANCIPATION
GAOLBREAKERS RECAPTURED (Beceivcd 30th January, 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. As the result of assistance from some person or persons outside two prisoners escaped from Wollongong Gaol. Tho police found that several bars had been forced from the iron grille which surmounts tho exercise yard wall, making an opening through which a man could easily wriggle. The "helper then walked along a short passage to the veils of his friends and supplied a
jemmy with which the locks of th« doors were broken. The same instrument was used to force the back door of the gaol through which the prison.ers gained their freedom. Immediately the authorities were notified of tho escape all police s.tations in the State were warned. The men were later recaptured at Gosford nearly a hundred miles away. Their boots were almost worn to pieces. They; said they had received occasional lifts.' Their feet were blistered and they offered little resistance when discovered.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 30 January 1928, Page 10
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158BRIEF EMANCIPATION Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 30 January 1928, Page 10
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