THRILLING STRUGGLE.
DETECTIVES AND PRISONER.
LONDON, June 9,
A huge crowd at Houndsditch witnessed a thrilling struggle between four detectives and Sidney Marks, who made a sensational escape from Pentonville last October. Marks was not overpowered until two officers had been injured, one severely. Sixty police were employed as a cordon. —A. and N.Z. cable.
Sidney Marks and Arthur Bacon escaped from Pentonville while painting the roof of the prison hospital, and tho former was not recaptured. The men occupied adjoining cells on tho fourth floor ■of the prison, and each possessed a pair of scissors for the purpose of his work. They removed bricks from tho wall and made a hole which they crawled through, and having tied sheets and portions of clothing into a rope, dropped to tho ground in the darkness. They then climbed a 20ft wall and escaped.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1926, Page 7
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