A PRISONER'S HOLIDAY
A holiday to celebrate Norway'■ National Freedom Day was takerTby * prisoner in the Stavanger prison, Norway. "I'll be back in two days' time." These words, scribbled'on a tiny'piece of paper, were all the warder found When ho entered one of the prison cells. during his morning round of inspection. The • prisoner,- • a burglar named Olaf Thorsen, had escaped by forcing open the door of his cell. lit vain the police searched the district. There was no trace qf him, and they were reduced to waiting to see if he would keep his word and return. The hours went by and nothing happened. Then, towards the end" of the afternoon of the promised day, the prison gate bell rang—and there was Olaf Thorsen waiting outside, day of "freedom" over.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 14
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131A PRISONER'S HOLIDAY Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 14
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