ESCAPE FROM GAOL.
TWG MEN AT LARGE. INVERCARGILL, October 28. Another escape from Invercargill prison occurred this afternoon, when Albert Edward M'Queen and Henry Gordon, who had been working in the cement-block-making sheds at the rear of the gaol, broke away, and made across the North Road and the golf-links to Thomson's Bush. The bush was beaten, and the escapees were sighted several times, but eluded their pursuers, who gave up the chase when night came on. M'Queen, who is an Invcrcargillite, knows the country thoroughly, and will probably bo hard to catch. He was sentenced at the last Supremo Court sittings here to seven years' imprisonment for assault with intent. Gordon was sentenced at Christchurch to nine months imprisonment, of which period all but two months had been served.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2955, 2 November 1910, Page 65
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130ESCAPE FROM GAOL. Otago Witness, Issue 2955, 2 November 1910, Page 65
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