ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM GAOL.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] In-vercaegill, Wednesday. A daring attempt to escape from gaol was made this morning by a man named Rockstrow, who is doing, a month's imprisonment for dynamiting fish, and who is to come up on charges of breaking and entering and arson to-morrow. He took the opportunity immediately after the prisoners were let out into the yard by quite an acrobatic feat to catch the bars outside his cell window to reach the roof and cross by the inner to the outer wall. He was about to drop when he saw the gaoler waiting to pounce on him, and, with cat-like agility, returned the way he came. He will be charged in open court to-morrow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11636, 25 April 1901, Page 5
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