LEAP FROM TRAIN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17702, 31 January 1918, Page 5

LEAP FROM TRAIN.

[Per Press Association.] \UOKLAND, January 30. Joseph Thomas Christie, who escaped from the Avondale Mental Hospital, was captured at Patea and taken to Wellington, where ho was charged with theft. He was being conveyed to Auckland on the Main Trunk express this morning in company with a constable As the train was approaching the suburbs Christie asked permission to enter the lavatory, and his request ~L Granted. Shortly afterwards suspicion was aroused, mid investigation showed that Christie had got through the lavatory window and escaped. The train was‘going slowly at tho time The prisoner was probably uninjured, but so far there is no trace of him.