FRENCH LEAVE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20432, 12 June 1928, Page 10

FRENCH LEAVE.

PRISONER ESCAPES FROM CAMP. > RECAPTURED AT HIS HOME. (Special to Daily Times.) ' WELLILNGTON, June 11. Late yesterday afternoon Arthur Cecil Dailey, an accountant, aged 30, escaped from the prison camp near Trentham, where he was serving a sentence of 12 months’ reformative detention imposed in December for false pretences. His wife is living in Wellington, and a watch kept on her house resulted in Dailey being arrested at 10 o’clock last night. Dailey pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to being an incorrigible rogue in that he escaped from prison before the expiration of his sentence. Chief Detective Ward said that when the accused was arrested he told the detectives that he had received some disturbing news from home and wanted to see his with. He also said that he had left a letter for the prison authorities to the effect that he would report again in the morning. ,This letter had been found at the pyison. “ Prisoners in these prison camps are not confined as in the city prisons,” added the chief detective. “ They are given a certain amount of liberty, and if one of them gets away it has a bad effect on the discipline and incites the other prisoners to do the same.” “ Your story seems to be correct,” «.id Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., to the accused. “ You did leave a letter, but at the same time breaking prison is a serious matter.” The accused was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, to be served at the s expiration of the present term. GOLF. ST. CLAIR LADIES. The following is the draw for a single bogey match to be played on the links this afternoon: — Miss Kay v. Mrs A. Smellie, Mrs Butcher v. Mrs W. T. Smellie, Mrs Jacobs v. Mrs Wight, Mrs Burnett v. Mrs Gamble, Miss Loudon v. Miss Hamilton, Mrs J. H. Robertson v. Mrs Garrett, Mrs Stirling v. Miss Perrin, Mrs Drake v. Mrs Handyside, Mrs Young v. Mrs Tansley, Mrs Button v. Mrs Henderson, Mrs Breeze v. Mrs C. F. A. Jones, Miss Goldsmid v. Mrs Pottinger, Mrs Cameron v. Mrs Hall Jones, Mrs W. Hudson v. Miss Pilcher, Miss Martin v. Mrs Carr, Mrs Osborne v. Miss M’Queen. ST. CLAIR v. INVERCARGILL. A match, St. Clair v. Invercargill, will be played on the St. Clair links to-mor-row. The following is the draw;— Morning.—Single bogey (12 holes): Miss Kay v. Mrs Carr, Miss Martin v. Miss Henderson, Mrs Cameron v. Mrs Handyside, Mrs Jacobs v. Mrs Tans ley, Mrs Burnett v. Mrs Hall Jones, Mrs Wight v. Miss Pilcher. Mrs W. Hudson v. Mrs C. F. A. Jones, Mrs Gamble v. Mrs Pottinger, Mrs Young v. Miss Perrin, Mrs Drake v. Miss Hamilton. Mrs Stirling v. Mrs Garrett, Miss Sehoen v. Miss M'Queen. Afternoon.—Medal match round: Miss Kay v. Mrs Carr, Mrs Butcher v. Miss Pilcher, Mrs Burnett v. Mrs Hall Jones, Mrs Wight v. Mrs Pottinger, Mrs Gamble v. Mrs C. F. A. Jones, Mrs Jacobs v. Mrs Tansley, Mrs A. Smellie v. Miss Henderson, Mrs Osborne v. Mrs Handyside, Mrs W. Hudson v. Miss Perrin, Miss Martin v. Mrs Garrett, Miss Sehoen v. Miss M'Queen, Mrs Cameron v. Mrs Hamilton, Miss Loudon v. Mrs Drake, Mrs Young v. Mrs Button, Miss Goldsmid v. Mrs Stirling.