Escape of a Prisoner.
(BY TET.EGEAPH.) Lytteltois, December 30. William Dennison, an old offender now serving 12 mouths for vagrancy, escaped from the hard-labor gang this morning. Eight men left the gaol at 7 a.m. for the top of Oxford-street, where they had been roadmaking, in charge of one warder. The men had just started work, when Dennison was missed. He apparently stepped behind a gorec fence, and, under that cover got away. The rest of the men were marched back to gaol and the alarm was given, and the warders and police started to scour the hills at the back of the town. At 10 o'clock Warder Ironsides found the prisoner's hat, trousers and "boots, hid in the scrub. At 10.30 a lad named Haikess informed Ironsides that lie had seen the prisoner in the distance heading towards the Heatlicote Valley. A large body of warders and police are now out.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5471, 30 December 1892, Page 3
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152Escape of a Prisoner. Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5471, 30 December 1892, Page 3
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