ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE
(By Telegraph—^Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, February 13.
An audacious escape from the Dunedin gaol was effected this morning by William Henry Charles McKay, who was being held pending his removal to Invercargill to answer a charge of breaking and entering. He was recaptured late in the afternoon as the result of information which led to a search over the Taieri Plain.
McKay is a declared habitual criminal aged thirty-one. Shortly, alter prisoners in the gaol entered the exercise yard at 7 o'clock, McKay disappeared, and when a search was made it was found that one of the sergeants' bicycles had also vanished. A short time later: a man answering McKay's "description was reported to have been seen passing through Green Island.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1938, Page 4
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123ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1938, Page 4
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