DESPERATE CRIMINALS
ESCAPE FROM HOBART GAOL POLICE SCOURING COUNTRY. Press Association—By Telegraph—-Copyright HOBART, November 22. (Received November 22, at 12.55 p.m.) The police are scouring the country for two of four desperate criminals, who escaped from the Hobart Gaol on Sunday afternoon. The fourth escapee, when jumping from, the prison wall, broke his leg, and was recaptured. The men, with the other prisoners, were attending a Salvation Army meeting in the exercise yard, and were not missed fill a boy informed'the police that ho had seen three prisoners running along the street. It is supposed that they took advantage of the meeting to evade the guard and to scale the prison buildings and then drop from the wall, which is 14ft high. An armed party of police recaptured, one of the escapees, named Downs, whe is a long-sentence man, five miles from, the city. He refused to surrender, and invited the police to fire, but was overpowered after a struggle. The two win were in hiding near-by managed to elude the polrie.
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Evening Star, Issue 19412, 22 November 1926, Page 6
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172DESPERATE CRIMINALS Evening Star, Issue 19412, 22 November 1926, Page 6
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