ESCAPE FROM GAOL

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 62, 11 September 1933, Page 6

ESCAPE FROM GAOL

INGENIOUSLY, PLANNED

TWO LONG-TERM MEN

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . AUCKLAND, This Day. An ingeniously-planned escape was made from Mount Eden gaol early this morning by George Hay ward and Harris O'Neill, who were serving sentences of soven and five years respectively. ■-....- ■ ' Both were, trusted prisoners employed in tho prison bakehouse, and according to practice they were locked in tho bakehouse early this morning to get out the first batch of bread. Three hours later it was discovered that they were gone. Using massive firebars from the furnace, they prised apart the window bars leading to the yard, and then took two long wooden rods, the handles of a scoop used for withdrawing loaves from the oven; They lashed these rods together and fixed to the end a wire book. They threw the hook on to the top of tho main wall of the prison, drew themselves- up. the rod, and let themselves down on the other side. .■■ The morning was extremely windy and dark. It was raining at the time, and the escapees wero not seen by the warders. -' '■ Mr. \V. W. Bird, lato Chief Inspector of Primary Schools and .Superintendent of Native Schools, has returned to Wellington from a visit, of inspection of the schools at Rarcionga and fie outer Cook Islands.