ESCAPE FROM GAOL
TAKES SERGEANT S BICYCLE A SPEEDY RECAPTURE Using one of the sergeant’s bicycles as a means of escape from the Dunedin Gaol, William Henry Charles M‘Kay, an habitual criminal, aged 31 years, made a break-array yesterday .morning which gave him his liberty, but only for a few hours. M'Kay was being held pending his removal to Invercargill today to answer a charge of breaking and entering. It was shortly after the prisoners had gone into the exercise yard at 7 o’clock that M'Kay disappeared. A search was made'and the sergeant’s bicycle found to be missing. Some time later a man answering' to M'Kay’s description was reported to have been seen passing through Green Island, and a search was immediately instituted over the district. Further information directed the police to concentrate on Berwick, where M'Kay was recaptured at 4.30 p.m. In the meantime he had broken into a house, apparently to obtain food. The assistance rendered by members of the public in connection with the search is 1 gratefully acknowledged by the police, who state that without that assistance such a speedy recapture would probably have been impossible. M'Kay appeared in the Police Court this morning, before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., on a further charge of breaking and entering the premises, of Cecil Crossan Cameron, and was remanded for a week.
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Evening Star, Issue 22882, 14 February 1938, Page 10
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224ESCAPE FROM GAOL Evening Star, Issue 22882, 14 February 1938, Page 10
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