ESCAPE FROM CELL
INGENIOUS PLAN SUCCEEDS [from OUR OWN' correspondent] MELBOURNE, Fab. 14 A labourer, Reginald Morgan Christopher, aged 24, and Horace George Kuhn, aged 25, bootmaker, escaped from the cell in which they wero imprisoned at Renmark, South Australia, by squeezing through a narrow tunnel, which they had dug beneath the foundation. They wero seen in the cell at midnight, and were missed at 6.30 a.m. next morning. After haying removed two eight-feet boards fron\ the floor, they made a hole in the earth with a pair of tin snips, which they had obtained from the police garage when exercising in the yard. The police say that the escapees may have got away in a motor-car, which is reported to have been stolen from a garage 300 yards from the prison.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22352, 25 February 1936, Page 12
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132ESCAPE FROM CELL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22352, 25 February 1936, Page 12
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