EXPENSIVE ESCAPADE.
BY ESCAPEE LUNATIC. LONEON, Sept. 10. Eamage to the extent of £IOO was done by a powerful 25-year-old inmate of the Abergavenny Asylum, who, escaping on the pretext of visiting his brother in another ward, defied capture. He climbed on to the roof by a waterspout and threw tiles at the attendants, who caused the inmates of one ward to be transferred owing to the danger of falling masonry. He bombarded cricketers playing in a nearby ground with slates and wrecked an air-shaft before he was captured when exhausted at 2 a.m.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 244, 12 September 1933, Page 7
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94EXPENSIVE ESCAPADE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 244, 12 September 1933, Page 7
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