CONVICT’S LEAP FOR LIBERTY.
BEING STARVED OUT ON CHAPEL HOOF. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Wednesday, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 7. During: a service, at, . Frankhurst prison yesterday, a convict took a flyins leap from the pulpit, climbed the beams above and disappeared through a skylight. He spent the night amj to-day on the root. The warders are waiting until hunger forces’him down. The convict collected a heap of slates to use as ammunition should warders attempt to reach his refuge.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2727, 9 July 1925, Page 7
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86CONVICT’S LEAP FOR LIBERTY. Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2727, 9 July 1925, Page 7
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