ESCAPING FROM CUSTODY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14713, 19 September 1918, Page 4

ESCAPING FROM CUSTODY.

Before Mr. W. A>^Barton, S.M.,' afe the Magistrate's Court this afternoon, , Love Tuki te Rangi Hurae, Was charged that having, on September 19."^. Gisborne, been . convicted , of '"', 4n offence (carnal knowledge) he unlawful^ escaped from the Gisborne prison. Detective McLeod cpnbiticted thb prosecuifcion. , ■■ <]■ • '' .- Charles Alfred Dolomore, h senior "w.-irder, stationed at His; -Mftj^fey^s .prison, Gisborne, deiposed that accused was received m custody on Tuesday. Aboiit "8 o'clock this ' morriiiig 4ie ; ! (witness) was letting six prisoners out to work-^from ithe outer gate of the prison —when accused (who was m the exercise yard with other men) riishted past. Witness opened the v gate; it Was a ; wide one— sft. or 6ft. wide^—and, strong wia!d fbrceia ijt out of witness'^ikndsano! swung it^wide open. ; Accused saw the opportunity and dashed right past witness. Witness could have" -caught 'him but was unable to chase aftrtr him until he had put the-iotMr men lilack and closed the dpoiv. 'Witness saw Kirn going up the beach, and called to him twice to stop, but he did not do so. He afterwards cut up off the beach on to. the grass paddock when witness was gaininsr on him. , Detective McLeod produced ■■/ certified copy of conviction of accused, /Syho'Kvas sentenced to two and a-half years' iln- -. prisonment. At 9 a.m. ito-day, m c6inpany with Constable Fischer, he arrested accused at Mi*. Davis' farm, Matawhero, where he had secreted himself io, a fowihouse'i When escorting him to thb police station m the motor car accused said he had beten advised by the other prisoners to clear out. Witness told him he would be charged with escaping from custody, and he said he ■wpuld plead guilty, as he did not want 1 any trouble. . - Constable Fischer also gava ''evidence. Accused pleaded vNOlty.y- -and x Vas committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. ' :, -• .' -V 'M%, Accused appealed to,his x \torshjp to bo allowed "to stop with the constables at the police station," instead of /being committed tQ the gaol. m f- : ■ C. His Worship said hei waß- \vn4blW>?to grant the ; requesfc/ He wouWr/p^rpb^loXv ? brought before 'tfie Sut)i'e)(rte J C<%'t to-morrow for sentence.,. He (Ins 'Wprshin), was. <(uite satisfied that aajFlpn^as prisoner behaVed 'himself h'e A wotiid^^Ve; i nothing .to 1 fear from /the *risbh l authorities-. ; ; ;;■ • ' '-CV: JU~. ' "'*'' '•-•- '!- : Ph^".