ESCAPE BY PRISONER FROM TRAIN RETOLD IN POLICE COURT
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, May 17. A prisoner who jumped from the Wel-iington-Auckland express near Horotiu on April 13 while being escorted from Wellington to the Auckland prison pleaded guilty in the police Court yesterday to a charge of escaping from lawful custody. He was Wilfred Edward Hall, alias John Lund, farmer, aged 38 Thomas McKeown. a warder, said the prisoner had escaped as the train was slowing down. He ran to the head of the train and escaped over a fence.
Detective Mathieson said that he recognised the accused as he was aiming out of an hotel and arrested him.
The prisoner was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22948, 17 May 1949, Page 6
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118ESCAPE BY PRISONER FROM TRAIN RETOLD IN POLICE COURT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22948, 17 May 1949, Page 6
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