TWO YEARS IN DUG=OUT
HIDES TO EVADE POLICE. A story of a man living for two years in a dug-out in order to avoid arrest was told at Portsmouth, when Sidney Charles Warner (33), of Wal•singham Street, "Walsall, appeared on a charge respecting £l3O arrears due to a Portsmouth! girl. It was stated that a warrant was issued in 1926. but it was never executed, although the police called at Warner’s house more than 50 times without finding him. Last November, however, he was arrested on two charges of housebreaking. At first he could not be found, but furniture and carpets were removed and a trap door was then discovered in the floor leading to a dug-out under the house where Warner had lived for two years. Sentence of three months’ imprisonment was passed, to be held in suspense so long as Warner sends £1 a week in respect of the order and arrears.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 4 December 1930, Page 9
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154TWO YEARS IN DUG=OUT Hawera Star, Volume L, 4 December 1930, Page 9
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