ESCAPE OF PRISONER.
BOLTS FROM QUARRY GANG.
FIRED AT ON HILLSIDE.
A prisoner named George Vincent Keys, serving a sentence of three months' imprisonment at the Mount Eden gaol, for being idle and disorderly at Tauranga, escaped from the prison gang in the quarry at about mid-day on Saturday. A warder noticed him going up the hillside among the rocks and fired at him, but he got away. A search party was quickly organised and scoured the district up to a late hour, continuing thS search yesterday, without: success. Keys was last seen on Saturday afternoon in some scrub beyond the Dominion Eoad tram terminus. He was then barefooted and had divested himsolf of some of the prison uniform he was wearing when he escaped. He is of medium build, fresh complexioned, with grey hair and eyes, and has a scar on the right side of the neck.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17752, 11 April 1921, Page 4
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148ESCAPE OF PRISONER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17752, 11 April 1921, Page 4
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