RELEASE ORDERED.
PRISONER WHO ESCAPED. Received July 13, 11.15 a.m. MELBOURNE, July 13. Caught in Sydney, bv 'chance last May, eleven years after lie had escaped from the police, George Pinnick, aged 37, lias been released from the Ballarat Gaol by order of the Executive Council because lie had made good after, his escape. Pinnick escaped from the escort by leaping from a moving train at North Creswick while on his way to gaol to serve twelve months’ imprisonment for stealing. He eventually settled in Sydney and prospered until he controlled a chain of garages. He married six years ago and his first child was born two months before lie was learrested.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 8
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112RELEASE ORDERED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 8
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