ESCAPE FROM PRISON
TWO MEN PLEAD GUILTY COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE [BV TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION"] CHRISTCHUKCH, Monday As a sequel to their attempt to escape from Paparua prison on September 8, Philip Daniel Trainor. a labourer, aged 24, and John Henrv Wilson, a labourer, aged 25, to-day pleaded guilty to a charge of escaping from prison. They were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
The escape was described by Reginald Coles, a prison warder, who said the two men, when working in a shingle pit at 4.25 p.m. last Wednesday, dropped their tools and bolted Irom the top of tlit? pit. Witness gave chase on a bicycle and a sentry gave the alarm. *
Witness saw the prisoners enter the freezing works and later, with police and warders, located Trainor and Wilson inside. They hid in a tallow vat and climbed to the rafters, from where they were dislodged by a fire hose.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22833, 14 September 1937, Page 12
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