GOAL BREAKERS.
DESPERATE CRIMINALS ESCAPE A TASMANIAN SENSATION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 1.35 p.m. to-day. HOBART, Nov. 22. Tli© police are scouring the country for two of four desperate criminals who escaped from the Hobart gaol on Sunday afternoon. One escapee, in jumping- from the prison wall 1 , broke a leg. and was recaptured. The. escaped men were with other prisoners attending a Salvation Army meeting in the exercise yard. They were not missed until a hoy informed the police that he had seen three prisoners. running along the street. It is supposed that they _took advantage of the meeting to evade the guard and scale the prison buildings. Then they dropped from a wad 14ft high. An armed party of police recaptured one of the escapees, named Downs, a lone-sentence man, five miles from the eitv' He. refused to surrender, and invited the police to fire, but was overpowered after a struggle. The other two. in hiding aearhv, managed to ' elude the ipoliee.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 November 1926, Page 9
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164GOAL BREAKERS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 November 1926, Page 9
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