WHERE IS PAWELKA?

Otago Witness, Issue 3005, 18 October 1911, Page 8

WHERE IS PAWELKA?

A WONDERFUL ESCAPE. (From Our Own Correspondent. ) AUCKLAND, October 8. The cell from, which Pawelka escaped was viewed by members of the Prisons Board while in Wellington. Mr F. G. Ewington, the Auckland member of the board, speaking to a reporter, said Pawelka had escaped from the common condemned cell, in which he had been placed for greater safety. He had made a previous attempt to escape by breaking through a window and performing a wonderful acrobatic feat of apparently standing on his hands and forcing his feet through the window nearly 6ft high, and almost escaping. A warder, seeing his legs coming through the window, caught hold of him and secured him. There were signs of blood on the wall where the prisoner had cut his hands. Then they put him into the condemned cell, where there was a small window. Here iron bars and wire netting secured, as they thought, the prisoner. Man will do anything for liberty. Who would not do what Pawelka did for freedom if he thought he could escape ? Performing another remarkable and absolutely unaccountable feat, Pawelka removed the iron bars and wire noiselessly, got through a email aperture, opened an outer door, got over a roof, and away. Where is he now ? Possibly not far from the gaol, like Brer Rabbit, lying low.