BID FOR FREEDOM.
Pill SON ICRS WORK ON TUNNEL. air CABLE—PKKSS ASSOCIATIOJM— COPYRIGHT. MELBOURNE, Sect. 6. ' The authorities at Pentriage gaol nipped in the hud an attempt to tunnel a way out. (Some days ago a prisoner, an efficient miner,- was missed from his place in the workshops, and a search disclosed the man working at a tunnel from inside of a locker in the works branch. The earth removed from the tunnel was taken out in a bucket and covered with rubbish, so the vigilance of the warders was evaded.
Apparently the prisoners, who supposedly number only two Or three;, connected with the plot had no knowledge of the underground lay-out, as within a few feet the tunnel would Crave wenched a concrete foundation impossible for them to penetrate.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 September 1925, Page 5
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130BID FOR FREEDOM. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 September 1925, Page 5
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