ESCAPED PRISONER
ARRESTED AT CHRISTCHURCH. After a week of liberty, the prisoner who escaped from the Greymouth gaol on January 10, George Albert Wilson, alias Henderson, alias Heywood, aged 27, was arrested at Christchurch yesterday. by a constable. He will appear before the Court at Christchurch, and will be remanded to appear at Greymouth, probably on Monday next, when he will be charged under Section 55 of the Police Offences Act, 1927, with being an incorrigible rogue, for which the maximum penalty is two years’ imprisonment. Wilson was serving a short sentence of a week at the Greymouth gaol, for failing to pay a fine and costs totalling £5, and had only three more days to serve when, on January 10, he escaped, while supposedly engaged on a cleaning task at the gaol. His movements were traced by the Greymouth police to Jackson’s where, it is believed, he “jumped” a goods train to Christchurch. It is understood that ho made a further attempt to escape from the custody of the constable who arrested him in the Christchurch city yesterday, but was unsuccessful.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 January 1939, Page 6
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