ESCAPEES CAUGHT.
LEAP FROM TRAIN WHILE HANDCUFFED.
PERTH, Aug, 19. Roy Stone, 20, and Francis H-art. 19, wild made a remarkable escape, while handcuffed together from a train 25 miles from Perth, were re-captured t-o-night . . . , After leaving the train, they said that they met a charcoal burner, who, smashed their handcuffffs with ail iron wedge. They walked to Perth, that day, and, securing some supplies, erected a tent on an ocean beach, near where they lived. The police wore out on many wildgoose aliases during the youths, tenn of liberty, ‘and a- posse of police ‘ escorted tiie-mi to the lock-up, wheie Stone remarked: “Now we’ll go to bed.” - ■ '
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 September 1925, Page 3
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