ESCAPE OF PRISONER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 1 August 1922, Page 7

ESCAPE OF PRISONER.

REMARKABLE STORY

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPZEIGHT Received August 1, 11.35 a.m SIDNEY, August 1. There was a sensational escape and recapture of a prisoner named bteiner. who was serving a life sentence for the murder of a Chinaman in Maitland ,gaol. He secured tools in the prison workshop, and after two months' labour sawed through, two iron bars and removed part of the stonework of the wifcidow cell. He knotted blankets and reached the ground clad in a singlet and trousers. He burst into the prison store and secured a quantity of cloth, a knife, boots and twine, and with great difficulty scaled the outer walls. He hid in the bush and made himself a suit out of the cloth. He then hid under a' tatrpaulin on a train, where the polifce surprised him. Sterner then jumped off and escaped, doubling back. "While the police were searching he thrice attempted to get aboard the same train while it was travelling, and narrowly escaped death. A little later one of the many police who were searching for him saw "him and covered hifm with a revolver, the escapee surrendering quietly. Steiner, in 1919, escaped from the Bathurst gaol, but was recapured after a short period of liberty. Soon after Stejner's arrest two Victorian gaol escapees, Higgins and Laughrey, who escaped from Pentridge gaol farm under a load of hay, were rearrested at the Newcastle Salvation Army Home.