BURGLAR SCULPTOR
MAKES BUST OF BREAD TO ESCAPE BUDAPEST, October 26. An ingenious attempt to escape from prison was made by a notorious burglar named Francis Ralugli, who is serving a long sentence in Gvoer prison. For. many months he had secreted portions of his daily bread ration. Iho night before his attempt to escape lie kneaded the bread into a fairly recognisable bust of himself and placed it in his bed to deceive the warders. The round iron stove front the cell he so arranged beneath the blankets as to suggest the rest of his body. After filing through the bars of Ins cell lie.let himself down from the window, with.,.a rope made of strips of blanket tied together. The rope proved too short and he had to let himself drop several feet. In doing so be sprained his ankle, and the warders, aroused by the,noise of the fall, were easily able to overtake and recapture him.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 3
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158BURGLAR SCULPTOR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 3
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