BRIEF LIBERTY.
CONVICTS' DASH FOR LIBERTY
(Press Association Telegram.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 26
Two prisoners at Mt. Eden. —Albert McQueen, serving a 15 years’ sentence and A. J. W. Roberts, serving a life sentence for fatally shooting a girl at Christchurch six or seven years ago— escaped from a quarry in Avhicli seA'eraf prisoners Avere at work this afternoon. They rantoAvards Newmarket in full view of tlie public, as they ran down the railway line. The ward, ers found them hiding in some scrub seA r eral hundred yards down the line, and they were recaptured without resisting.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4458, 27 January 1917, Page 5
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