TERRIBLE TERRY.

NZ Truth, Issue 68, 6 October 1906, Page 6

TERRIBLE TERRY.

"Tarry Terry, Do! Not Weep or Sigh."

Had Lionel Terry kept quiet, and not said a word, the chances are that, m due course of time, he would have been put on board a boat and sent to his. friends m the Old Country. Perhaps he would have been sent to Australia ; however, he has not exercised the slightest discretion and, probably m order to gain notoriety, he adjourned again without any chairman moving a formal vote. In plain words he escaped after bedlime on Saturday night, making his way out of a top window, 20ft from the ground. They were cunning enough not to leave him his clothes, and he was locked m. But Terry is a man of superhuman strength, and he wrested the window bars as though they were so much matchwood,, and got away. He had torn his sheets into strips and made a rope, and had put the pillowcase at the end as a buffer, and slid down it beautifully. He had only a few feet to' drop. Lucky it was that the goods provided -m the matter of sleeping appar-61- wasn't the usual Government . rotten stuff, or else Terry Would have ! fallen with a,, -great fall. It was cute of hint - t o endeavor to get away on Saturday night, as telegraphic- communication was cut off, and tbe police could do- very little until the next day- However, a strong-looking 'individual, standing about six foot three, and wearing' a sack round his head, and a pair of white pants, was seen near Kaiapoi, and a fellow named Doubleday gave him away.. Nobody out that way would