YOUTHFUL ESCAPEES
BREAK FROM PRISON CELL [Pee United Press Association.] TIMARU, February 10. Three youths, Frank Dixon, aged 19, Garfield Smith, aged 17, and Claud* Hill, aged 17, appeared in the Timaru Court yesterday on charges of breaking, entering, and theft, and also •unlawfully converting cars. They were remanded in custody till Monday, butabout 9 o’clock to-night, when the police, visited the cell, they found’ it empty. The three accused had forced a way through the iron netting over a space in the exercise yard and made good their escape. There was no trace of them at a late , hour to-night. SHORT PERIOD OF LIBERTY ' [Pee United Press Association.] ' TIMARU, February 11. Acting on information received front farmers at Seadown, the police arrested the three youths.
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Evening Star, Issue 23189, 11 February 1939, Page 14
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126YOUTHFUL ESCAPEES Evening Star, Issue 23189, 11 February 1939, Page 14
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