RAID BY WARDERS
GAOL-BREAKER'S KIT SEIZED PRISONER'S INGENIOUS PLAN MELBOURNE, Dec. 24. | Raiding a cell at Pentridge gaol on ' Friday night, warders found a cunningly concealed and ingeniously propared gaol-breaker ,'s kit, on which a prisoner serving an eight years' term for shopbreaking had built his hopes for a Christmas escape.
For some day 3 the man had been under observation, and a search of his cell revealed tho following articles:— A miniature blow-lamp, the size of amatchbox, and a length of rubber tube, a hacksaw frame made from an Oddment of steel ,a small piece of hacksaw blade, a home made glassMitterrand 12ft of stout cord with grappling irous attached. Apparently intending to use the glasscuttcr, blowlamp, and saw to escape from the cell through the ironbarred window, the man would then have' used the rope and grappling hooks to scale,a drawbridge in the exeVclse yards and the innor and outer walls of the prison. The articles had been smuggled into the cell from the prison workshop. To get the cord into his cell, the man had opened a tin of jam, which was part of his issue, removed some of the jam, inserted the rope, and soldered the lid on again.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 7
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203RAID BY WARDERS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 7
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