Escape of Prisoners.
ONE REMAINS AT LARGEA SECOND CONVICT RECEIVES A CHARGE OF SHOT. Nelson, Sept. 4. To-day a prisoner named "William Anderson, afais Arthur Floyd, convicted at Timaru of stealing from a dwelling - houses and sentenced to four years' hard labor, and to an additional two months for attempting to escape from Lyttleton gaol, escaped from Rocks-road gang, and has not been captured. He cannot get far away and will probably be caught to-morrow. When the same gang was marching a prisoner named Alfred Ellis, serving five years for breaking and entering and forgery, made a bolt. A warder went in pursuit and called twice on him to stop and warned him he would shoot. The man continued to run and two shots were fired, bringing Ellis down, buckshot wounds being in the left arm and scalp. Ellis was able to walk. The prison doctor attended and pronounced the injury trifling.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 113, 5 September 1896, Page 3
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152Escape of Prisoners. Hastings Standard, Issue 113, 5 September 1896, Page 3
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