PRISONERS ESCAPE.
FROM MT. EDEN GAOL. J INGENIOUS METHODS. f§ Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 11. fgj An ingeniously planned escape was made from Mount Eden Gaol early this morning by George Hayward and Harris O’Neill, who were serving sentences of seven a.nd five years respectively. Both were trusted prisoners employed in the prison bakehouse and, according to practice, they were locked in the bakehouse early this morning to get out the first batch of bread. Three hours later it was discovered that they had gone. _ . Using massive firebars from the furnace, they prised apart the window bars leading to the yard and with them took two long wooden rods, the handles of the scoop used for withdrawing the loaves from the oven They lashed these rods together afi! fixed to the end a wire hook. Tliej threw the hook on to the top of th main wall of the prison and dro] themselves up the rod and let thejnj selves down, on the other side. if The morning has been exiremel windy and dark and it is raining an the escapees were not seen by tl warders. ===========^======== mf m
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 11 September 1933, Page 6
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190PRISONERS ESCAPE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 11 September 1933, Page 6
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