HUNT FOR FIVE MEN
POLICE AID NAVY CELL LOCK SEVERED (9 am) SYDNEY. Jan. 29. More than 200 police and naval ratings are searching for five seamen who escaped from the Balmoral naval depot guardhouse, Sydney, by sawing off the lock securing a trapdoor above their cell. , . , . It is believed that a hacksaw blade was smuggled into the cell by a prisoner. The men opened the trapdoor and climbed into the attic, from which they escaped by prising two tiles off the roof. They then slid down the roof in broad daylight and disappeared into thick scrub. There have been 11 escapes from the Guardhouse in a month. Six men got away on December 28, but five of them wer recaptured within three days.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22241, 29 January 1947, Page 5
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