INGENIOUS ESCAPE
CONVICTS AT MT. EDEN EARLY MORNING INCIDENT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this clay. An ingeniously planned escape was qiade from Mount Eden gaol early this morning by George Hayward and Harris O’Neill, who were serving sentences of seven and five years respectively. Both were trusted l prisoners employed in the prison bakehouse, and,, according to practice, they were locked in tho bakohouso early this morning to get out the first batch of bread. Three hours later it was discovered that they had gone. Using massive firebars from the furnace, they prised apart the window bars leading to tho yard, and with them took two long wooden rods, tile handles of scoops used! for withdrawing loaves from the oven. They lashed these rods together and fixed to the end a. wire hook. They threw' the hook on to the top of the main wall of the prison, drew themselves up the rod, and let themselves down the other side.
The morning was extremely windy and dark, and it was raining, and the escapees were not seen by tho warders.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18190, 11 September 1933, Page 5
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