Escaped Prisoner Has Brief Spell of Liberty
REARRESTED AT RELIET CAMP AUCKLAND, Last Night. Fourteen hours of liberty were obtained by a prisoner, William Henry Charles McKay, alias Lamb, wiho jumped from the Wellington-Auckland express as it was leaving Mercer station shortly before 6 o'clock on Saturday morning. He was rearrested at 8 o'clock on Saturday evening at a relief camp one mile north of Mercer. He was one of a number of prisoners being brought' to Mount Eden gaol from the south. McKay, who is an habitual criminal, is identical with Joseph Gordon Lamb, who on July 31 at Christchurch was sentenced to six months' gaol for theft following the exposure of his attempt to hoax charitable organisations in Christchurch.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 August 1933, Page 3
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