ESCAPE FROM GAOL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22717, 1 November 1935, Page 4

ESCAPE FROM GAOL

SIMPLE RUSE ADOPTED YOUTH WALKS STRAIGHT OUT (Per United Pbess Association) CHRISTCHURCH, October 31. A simple ruse was employed by William Kenneth Mailman, a labourer, aged 2L when, he made his escape from Paparua Gaol on October 17 last. He was given permission to leave the schoolroom, and just walked into the night. Mailman appeared in the Magistrate's Court this morning to answer for the offence that he was deemed to be an incorrigible rogue, and was sentenced by Mr E. C. Lewey, S.M., to an additional term of six months in gaol to his present sentence of three years' reformative detention. Senior Sergeant Calwell said that Mailman was sentenced in Wellington in August to three years' reformative detention on two charges of breaking and entering, with theft. He was admitted to Paparua Gaol that month, and on October 17 escaped, and was arrested two days later at Kaiapoi. The superintendent of the gaol (Mr Leggett) said that on the evening he escaped Mailman.was attending institutional school. The convenience was situated outside the door of the classroom on the first floor landing. Mailman was given permission to leave the room, and he did not return. "He must have gone downstairs out on to the parade and away," continued Mr Leggett. "It was quite simple. He could have walked away."