SHORT-LIVED LIBERTY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 January 1928, Page 9

SHORT-LIVED LIBERTY

CAUQHT IN POLICE NET.

PRISONERS’ BOLD BID. DOOR. LOCKS BROKEN. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.30 p.m., to-day. SYDNEY, Jan. 30. As the result of assistance from some person or persons outside two prisoners escaped from the Wollongong gaol. The police found that several bars bail been prised from an iron grille which surmounts the exercise yard wall, an opening thus being made through which a man could easily wriggle. A lie,per then apparently went along a short passage to the cells of _ liis friends and supplied them with a jemmy, with which' the locks of the doors were broken. The same instrument was used to force the back door of the gaol through which the prisoners gained their temporary freedom. Immediately the authorities were notified of the escape all police stations in the State were warned.

The men were fater recaptured at Gosford nearly a hundred miles away. Their boots were almost worn to pieces. They said they had received occasional lifts and their feet were blistered, and they offered little resistance when discovered.