PRISON PLOT
MAN WORKING IN TUNNEL. FRUITLESS ATTEMPT IN ANY CASE. (Received Sept. 6. 11.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept, 6. The authorities at- Pentridge gam nipped in the bud an attempt to tunnot a way out. Some days ago the prisoner, an efficient miner, was missed from, his place in the workshops. A search disclosed that the man was workiug in a. tunnel from the inside of the°.locker in the works branch. The earth removed from the tunnel wa.s taken out in a bucket and covered with rubbish, so that the vigilance of the warders was evaded. Apparently the prisoners, who are supposedly to number only tv o or three connected with the plot, had noknowledge of the underground layout, as within a few feet of the tunnel they would have reached a concretefoundation which it would be impossible for them to penetrate.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10095, 7 September 1925, Page 5
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