PRISON ESCAPEE
MISSING FROM CAMP SERVING FIVE-YEAR TERM (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 27. A prisoner, Fidgar Arthur Petersen, aged 27 years, escaped on Wednesday night from the Rangipo prison camp near Tokaanu. The missing man, who was wearing prison clothes at the time of his escape, was sentenced at Wellington last month to five years’ reformative detention on charges of breaking and entering and theft and breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime. He is described as being of sullen appearance. There is a scar over his left eye.
When lie appeared for sentence before the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, at Wellington, Petersen requested that he should be flogged rather than .be declared an habitual criminal. His Honour replied that he had not intended to impose a declaration of habitual criminality. His only reason for not doing so was that the prisoner was still a young man.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 June 1935, Page 4
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151PRISON ESCAPEE Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 June 1935, Page 4
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