ESCAPE FROM GAOL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3619, 24 July 1923, Page 25

ESCAPE FROM GAOL.

PRISONER’S DARING EXPLOIT. AUCKLAND, July 22. A prisoner named Frank Ballar, 21 years of age, sensationally escaped from gaol yesterday morning. He was helping to serve breakfast at 6.30 o’clock when he was missed. Immediately afterwards a warder found a rope of blankets extending from Ihe watch tower to the wall—a distance of 50ft. The prisoner had walked along the top of the wall, then dropping another 20ft to soft ground, where his footprints were seen. There was a dense fog at the time, and nc further trace of the man was seen’, except that his prison clothes were found in a house in the city, from which a suit had been taken. Ballar was sentenced at Gisborne on June 8 to three months' hard labour for theft, and three months for escaping from custody, to bo followed by three years’ reformative treatment AUCKLAND, July 19. William Anderson, aged 30, who was committed to the Mental Hospital on January 5, 1921, after the murder of a man named Telfe.r escaped at 2.30 this morning. He was recaptured in the city this afternoon, wearing a new suit and with money and tobacco in his pockets. He made no resistance.

While there is considerable sympathv with the houseowner who has the papers torn off the walls of his rented houses and the windows broken and the paintwork scratched by the children of tenants, it is doubtful if the system adopted by a certain landlord in Hamilton East of charging 2s 6d ext.ra for the ordinary rent for each child which the tenant possesses will meet (ho position (says the Waikato Times). The remedy, it is thought, lies rather in parents exercising a better supervision over their children, whose uimilinoss can cause a landlord more expense than the rent which he draws from his house.