PRISON ESCAPEES WILL RECEIVE SEVERE PENALTY
WELLINGTON, This Day (P.A.)— A warning that any future prisonbreaking offences would be more severely dealt with was given by Chief Justice O’Leary in the Supreme Court today. His Honor was imposing sentences of 18 months’ hard labour on Marcus Paul Greenhalgh, aged 33, a labourer, and Allan David Arnesen, aged 24, a coalminer who both escaped from Witako prison on October 31. His Honor said that breaking out of prison seemed inevitably to lea’d to other crimes—getting clothes and food. The prison superintendent told him on the last occasion that there was always a lot of unrest among prisoners when someone escaped.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1949, Page 5
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