ESCAPE FROM GAOL.
YOUTH'S SENTENCE INCREASED. [BY TEMGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PALMERSTON NORTH. Friday. A youth, Richard Harold Edwin Giles, undergoing a sentence of four years' reformative treatment, . and waiting further sentences on two charges of theft, escaped from Palmerston gaol on Sunday evening. He was arrested again at Oroua Downs on Wednesday, having broken into two dwellings meanwhile. He was brought before the Court to-day, and, admitting all the charges, was sentenced to 12 months' reformative treatment for escaping from gaol, and two months for each theft, the sentences to bo concurrent with the original sentenc* of four years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16925, 10 August 1918, Page 6
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