RETURN OF AUSTRALIAN CRUISERS
(Received July 13, 2.5 p.m.)
CANBERRA, This Day.
The Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, has received a cable from, the Secretary for the. Dominions to the effect that the cruisers Australia, and Sydneywill "leave Alexandria for Fremantle tomorrow. .•;..■...
PRISONER WHO MADE GOOD
(Received July. 13, 2.25 p.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day.
George Pinnick, aged 37, who was caught in Sydney by chance last May, eleven years after he escaped' from the police, has been released from Ballarat Gaol by order of the Executive Council because he made' good after his escape. ■
Pinnick escaped from his escort byleaping from a moving train at North. Creswick while on the way to gaol to serve a sentence of twelve months' imprisonment for stealing. He eventually settled in Sydney, and' prospered until he controlled a chain of garages. He married six years ago, and his first child was born two months before he was rearrested.
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Evening Post, Issue 11, 13 July 1936, Page 10
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