PRISON BARS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1923, Page 3

PRISON BARS.

HO NY TO GET THROUGH. A PRISONER'S EXHIBITION. [by TfxKcnArit—run vkkss association.] AUCKLAND. April 21 To prove he could escape without .'o aid of a scaling hook and rope. I ho:i!->-All'retl Westlake, serving six .voars. squeezed through two lacs tl ■ w’li' apart at. Alt Eden prison this n-.erni--.-:. before a .Magistrate and officials. An improvi-etl hook, rope and woe were found in a coal bin M H" 1 11 miner’s soaii-making loom, which let to fi. charge* lo >ai he tleela red that he )md >)«’ knowledge of them M,,d that he could get through the bins and over the wall because he knew a

few wavs out. . • The Magistrate agreed to an exhibition and stripping ol hi’’ c°aL 1 ” lake vas through the pertlenti.eula liars in five seconds. H looked bke a illusion. NVestlake is oft. «;»•- l " height and of medium bund, he “ wards showed a place on the wa.l when he could get over without a The Superintendent agreed that U was possible, because a - 1

dune it. Tlic charge was dismissed. Westlake is serving for the theft o t >‘- auxiliary yacht Raata last year, « with two eompanmns sal <-* Queensland Const from „ the aid of only a school at'-' • ruler.