ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY
FOURTEEN HOURS’ LIBERTY (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 6. Fourteen hours of liberty were obtained by a prisoner named William Henry Charles M‘Kay, alias Lamb, who jumped from the Wellington-Auckland express as it was leaving Mercer station shortly before 6 o’clock on Saturday morning. He was rearrested at 8 o’clock on Saturday evening at a relief camp one mile north of Mercer. He was one of a number of prisoners being brought to Mount Eden from the south. M'Kay, who is an habitual criminal, is identical with Joseph Gordon Lamb, who on July 31, at Christchurch, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for theft, following the exposure of an attempt to hoax charitable organisations in Christchurch.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22025, 7 August 1933, Page 12
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120ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY Otago Daily Times, Issue 22025, 7 August 1933, Page 12
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