ESCAPED PRISONERS
SEARCH PROCEEDING NEAR MELBOURNE lb T.A.-ID Electric Telegraph -Copyright | MELBOURNE. 10th May. Armed police and warders have been searching the bush and roods round j Beechworth since early yesterday for George Grannon rfhd Raymond Cullen, i indeterminate sentence prisoners, who disappeared while working with 14 other reformatory men clearing land near a pine plantation a few miles from Beechworth. The only food the tnen had had was bread and jam which they were eating at lunch yesterday. The men were honour prisoners. They were reported to have been seen by a prison guard near Springhurst this afternoon and it was stated that they were heading for Wangaratta. AH bridges on the route arc closely guarded by armed police. No thefts of food or clothing are reported It is thought that the men may be driven by hunger to surrender. ■
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 12
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141ESCAPED PRISONERS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 12
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