AN ESCAPED PRISONER.
ATTEMPTS A BURGLARY,
EASILY, RECAPTURED,
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Wanganui, Thursday.About two o'clock this afternoon a prisoner named George Albert Wallingford, awaiting trial for a series of thefts from hotels here, escaped from gaol. He had been in washing tho house, and in the momentary absence of the warder disappeared. The police spent an energetic five hours in search of the escapee until a telephone message from Mr. S. J. Gordon, manager of the Bank of Australasia, announced that a burglar was in his house.
A constable-was promptly on the scene and found the burglar to be Wallingford, who had got in through the window while the family were at tea. Mr. Gordon had occasion to go into the front portion of the house, and there saw someone moving. Thinking it was his son, he asked, " What are you doing hero?" and the burglar candidly replied, "I'm thieving." His arrest was an easy matter, and Wallingford was watched until the police arrived. It then transpired that the house of Bertram Lambert, on the other side of the road, had been entered. The prisoner showed the police where he had hidden the articles. His swag altogether totalled about £110. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15055, 26 July 1912, Page 8
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200AN ESCAPED PRISONER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15055, 26 July 1912, Page 8
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