AGAIN AT LARGE
SENSATIONAL ESCAPE OF JOSEPH CHRISTIE. Praea Association. AUCKLAND, May 6. 1 Joseph Thomas Christie, who has previously made several sensational escapes from custody, got through tho window of a cell at Avondale Mental Hospital on Saturday, and is still at largo.
It will be remembered that Christie went to a motor supply store at Palmerston North not long ago, and 6tated that he desired to purchase a motor-cycle. He said that ho could not ride, and an instructor was detailed to teach him. Lossons weregiven, and Christie was anxious to try the working of the machino for himself. Permission was given, and he did not stop till ho reached AVellingto.n. He sold the bicycle to a person at Island Bay, and was apprehended. Christie is between twenty and thirty years of ago. He was being taken to tho Auckland Mental Hospital on one occasion by two constables, when he escaped through a window of the train between Ellorslio and Auckland. He has boon committed to a mental hospital several times, and escaped quito regularly. on o of his dashes for freedom involved a jump overboard from the Maori in Lyttclton harbour.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9964, 7 May 1918, Page 6
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