ESCAPE FROM SHORTHAND GAOL.
The first escape from Shortlandgaol too!; place on Monday morning, when a man named .Mooro, alias De Lacy, managed to cet away, ds we stated in yesterday's paper, Moore was apprehended for stealing some articles of from the Prince Arthur Hotel, 'urahomstown, and would have been brought up on tlio charge yesterday. Moore, however, who was sentenced to imprisonment n short time since for larceny, and who has hut lately completed his sentence, resolved to make au attempt to evade the Court. At seven o'clock yeaterJay morning, Moore was lot out into the yiir.i to Wttjli. .it a corner of the yard stands a water-closet, and to get up on this, then on to the wall, and drop down on the other side, was a very easy matter, while the gaoler, Mr. lieattie, was at the yard door. The feat, indeed, with the assistance of the water-closet building, wub not bo difficult as getting over an ordinary fence. Moore's abfence was immediately noticed by the gaoler, and a diligent search made in the neighbourhood. We understand that the gaoler will give a reward of £o to anyone who will furnish such information as will lead to the arrest of the fugitive. —Times.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1841, 8 December 1869, Page 3
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