ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE.
SENTENCE OF DETENTION. YOUTH AGAIN IN COURT. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] WELLINGTON, Tuesday. An attempt to escape from tho Mount Crawford prison was made on Sunday last by Frank Seckington, aged 19, after his recent sentence to two years' detention in a Borstal institution, for breaking and entering at Woodville. Tho superintendent of the prison said to-day in tho Police Court that Seckington did not look on his imprisonment in a very serious light, and suggested a spell on bread and water might be for his benefit. He was being held at Mount Crawford until he could be transferred to a Borstal institution. The magistrate desired timo to consider the case, and remanded Seckington until to-morrow for sentence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20255, 15 May 1929, Page 16
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