ASSAULT ON WARDER
PRISONERS SENTENCED [by telegraph—Pit ESS association] DUNEDTX, Friday For assaulting a warder at the Borstal institution in Invercargil! before making their escape, Manuel Poihipi and George William Chase, both aged 19, were sentenced in the Supreme Court to 15 months' reformative detention. The warder was struck with a lead bar wrapped in a handkerchief and dragged into a cubicle.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23839, 14 December 1940, Page 15
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62ASSAULT ON WARDER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23839, 14 December 1940, Page 15
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