PRISONERS ESCAPE
DIG THEIR WAY TO FREEDOM. DUMMIES SUBSTITUTED. (Pres* Association— By Telegraph-—Copyright-, r NEW YORK, January 24. (Received Jan. 25, at 10 p.m.) Twenty-one prisoners confined in a single cell in Detroit County prison, dug their way to freedom through a brick wall by means of tools fashioned from plumbing fixtures and flattened buckets. They substituted dummies, which smiled on the guards while the prisoners made a getaway. Two have already been captured, and the search for the others is extending to Canada.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20316, 26 January 1928, Page 9
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