PRISON ESCAPEE
BUSH-WAGES THIEF.
[FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.]
CHRISTCHURCH, August 8. A prisoner escaped from Paparua Prison this evening’. The. discovery was made at six o’clock when the roll
was called. The man has not yet ® been recaptured. The escapee is Timothy Edward Cosgrave, who is serving a sentence of three years for breaking, entering and theft. Cosgrave had been working by himself in stables attached to the. prison. He was a parole prisoner and was not under close supervision. He is a bushman, aged 47, and is six feet three inches in height. He has still the major portion of his sentence to serve, as he was committed
in May. His sentence was for having stolen on February 1G a handbag-con- ’ taining four hundred pounds, the wages of employees of a saw,mill in the Longwood district, Southland. Cosgrave filched the bag from the mill locomotive while the man in charge was off guard. He was arrested at Round Hill, Southland, two days after the robbery. All the money was recovered, except £47.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1930, Page 7
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