PRISON BREAKERS
TRIAL AT AUCKLAND
WARDERS EXAMINED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The trial of prisoners on charges arising from breaking gaol at Auckland was resumed at the Supreme Court today. Warders Burgess and Scholium gave evidence on the lines of the Crown Counsel's statement. Burgess said he remembered nothing after he bent over a table to check the list of prisoners for drill. Scholium said that he lost memory of everything after receiving a blow on- the head while bending over Burgess. Both these witnesses, and also the Superintendent, Mr. Leggett, were freely cross-examined by the prisoner Smith, mostly on points of gaol procedure. O'Hehir and Watson did not ask questions. Warder Crawford, who had difficulty in articulating plainly, said he was unlocking the cells of prisoners in the north wing for drill when he was felled by a blow on the head. He woke up in hospital five weeks later. He did not know who hit him.
The Court adjourned for lunch
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 10
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