A MISSING PRISONER.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15922, 7 May 1912, Page 5

A MISSING PRISONER.

HIS BAIL ESTREATED. [Pkr Prkss Association.] WELLINGTON. May 6. There was no answer at the Supreme Court to-day when the name ofCiCors+e Ellis Allen was called. Allen had been committed for trial on a charge of having forged the name of H. Webb to a cheque lor £5 and uttered the same to Thomas Page. He had been admitted to bail in the sum of £SO. Mr H. H. Ostler, Crown Prosecutor, stated that Allen had been admitted to bail, and the police reported that he had absconded. His Honor: When did they miss him? Mr Ostler replied that Allen was missed shortly after his admission to bail, when the police wanted him for offences committed after the trial in the lower Court. His Honor Mr Justice Chapman made an order estreating the absconder's bail.