HARD WON FREEDOM.
DUO THOUGH OB hi. WALL. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Twenty-one prisoners confined in a. single cell in Detroit county prison dug their way to freedom through a brick wall by means of tools fashioned from plumbing fixtures and flattened buckets.
They substituted dummies, which •smiled on the guards while the prisoners made their getaway. Two have already been captured and the search for others is extending to Canada.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 January 1928, Page 5
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