TIRED OF FREEDOM
ESCAPED PRISONER REPENTS
FOUR YEARS' LIBERTY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHEISTCHUECH, This Day. After four years of liberty, Leo Sylvester Ilannan, who escaped from Eangipo Prison Camp, Auckland, on 12th July, 1926, gave himself up to the police hero and appeared this morning before the Magistrate 'on a charge of escaping from custody. Ho pleaded guilty, and .was committed for sentence. In a statement .to the, police Hajmau, who had been imprisoned for theft from a hotel, said that he felt unwell in the prison camp, and therefore escaped, travelling into the_ country and working on the Hauraki, drainage works for a time. Lately he had been worrying over his escape, and so decided to give himself up.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 36, 11 August 1930, Page 10
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TIRED OF FREEDOM
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 36, 11 August 1930, Page 10
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