DARING ESCAPE
«■ PASSENGERS BY BLACK MARIA (Rec. 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 24. Two men escaped from the .police Black Maria when they 'were being taken from the Long Bay gaol to the court to-day where they were to appear on charges of breaking and entering. They removed a narrow grilled air viint at the rear of the van, squeezed through, and dropped to the ground. One man left nearly half his trousers iu the frame of tho'grille. The escape recalls in daring and ingenuity a break in 1930 in which a man prised a door from a Black Maria and dropped to the roadway in . AnJiandale.. This is'the first escape.since the vaiiß were strengthened following the previous attempts , ;.;;.'• ' In • getting away, .one man, fell heavily to the road, and it is thought he might have been injured. The search is proceeding. : - ..... '
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Evening Star, Issue 25701, 26 January 1946, Page 12
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141DARING ESCAPE Evening Star, Issue 25701, 26 January 1946, Page 12
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