PRISONER AT LARGE
ESCAPE FROM RANGIPO CAMP (Peb United Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 27. A prisoner, Edgar Arthur Petersen, aged 27, escaped on Wednesday night from the Rangipo prison camp near Tokaanu. The missing man', who was wearing prison clothes at the time of his escape, was sentenced in Wellington last month to five years' reformative detention on charges of breaking and entering and theft, and breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime. He is described as being of sullen appearance. There is a scar over his left eye. When he appeared for sentence before the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in Wellington Petersen requested that he should be flogged rather than declared an habitual criminal. His Honor replied that he had not intended to impose a declaration of habitual criminality. His only reason for not doing so was that the prisoner was still a young man.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22609, 28 June 1935, Page 4
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