A HANDCUFF KING.
MINER TWICE SLIPS FREE. To account for two escapes from hatiJcuffs, a prisoner a; St. Helens, Lancashire, lately held up his arms and showed thai his wristS were so thin as LO S ! '-P till 01.;the smallest liandeutfs. . The prisoner was an unemployed niuiu named Stephen (/unlike, aged o-t. Ho was eniHit when walking away with tni codfish from a wholesale When a constable slipped handcuffs On him he quickly slipped them off a aand bolted. The constable lastened handcuffs more carefnllv on captunng * a second time, but liC - » almost immediately. . „iioi-nin Cunliffo was lined lCs, with the alte.w tivc of seven days in prison.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)
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108A HANDCUFF KING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)
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