ATTEMPTED GAOL BREAK
EYE-WITNESS’ STORY (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Describing'Buckley’s attempted escape from Mt. Eden gaol, two little girls said they saw a man jump over a low stone wall. He ran about 10 yards and then threw up his hands and fell on his face. Then a warder with a rifle in his hand came running from a house at the corner of the gaol. 'He stopped when he got to the other man, who was lying down, moaning terribly, and there was a lot of blood on his clothes. It was raining heavily at the time Buckley escaped. Buckley is in a critical condition.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 15
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108ATTEMPTED GAOL BREAK Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 15
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