A Daring Escape from Prison.

Evening Star, Issue 7641, 18 June 1888, Page 3

A Daring Escape from Prison.

Edward Wicks, a notorious character, who had been locked up for assaulting the police, made a, daring escape from the Warrington police cells recently. Ho was confined in a cell next to the flay yard, into which he was allowed to go at will. Shortly after duak it was ascertained that he had escaped. He had wrenched a plank bed, 12ft long, and weighing 3cwt, from its fastenings, and dragged it from the cell. Then, placing it against _ a wall 20ft high, he managed to climb to the top, whence he dropped into the street and got clear away. Later in the evening the police surrounded a house in v/hich the man was known to be hiding. An entrance was effected, and it was then found that the prisoner had, by means of a ladder, taken refuge in an attic, drawing the ladder up after him. Standing on the trapdoor, he defied the police to take him. After somo difficulty the. police burst the trap-door open with a pole, and the prisoner then surrendered. The river Mersey runs past the back of the house, and the prisoner's friends bad arranged to take him off in a boat as soon as it became sufficiently dark. Wicks was brought before the Magistrates, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labor.