PRISONER RECAPURED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 3

PRISONER RECAPURED

POUND ON GAOL ROOF HID FOR TWO DAYS LONDON’, .Tuly L Emost Frederick Morris, -1, wLo escaped from a roll at Wandsworth Prison on Tuesday, and for whom an intensive .police search had. been made, was found late last night on, I lie roof of an outbuilding in the prison. He was -exhausted, suffering from exposture and lark of food. He was taken to the prison hospital. A search had been carried on throughout the day by prison officers. After an inquiry among the warders itwas concluded that it was impossible for Morris to have escaped from the prison confines. Il is presumed that Morris had spent the past -LS hours on the roof of ihe building. To reach his hiding place ho must have scaled a stackpipe. All along the authorities had been puzzled how it was possible for Morris to make a getaway when it would be necessary for him to scale a lidi I wall and walk through the streets in prison garb. EXECUTION DAY ESCAPE The escape was made on the same clay as Frederick Field was executed in the prison for murder. In consequence) the usual privilege of being shown over the prison was denied to the jury at the inquest, on Field. The following day an inquiry into the escape was opened at the prison.

The theory that Morris, who is serving an 1,-’-months’ sentence, secreted himself in a van containing mail bags was discounted because of the vigilant scrutiny to which the vans were subjected before leaving the prison coniines.

Morris was missed about .1 p.m. on Tuesday, when il was not iced I lint lie was not on parade. Apparently his absence luid no; been detected earlier because prison officials were under ihe impression that he was in his cell, the door of which appeared to be locked. Scotland Yard Flying Sqtmd officers joined in a widespread smirch and the police in the South London district covered a wide area trying to discover his associates.

Ladders were u*ed by prison officers in their search of ihe exterior when the hum. inside the building failed to reveal any trace of the missing man. As soon as the discovery was made Scotland Yard was informed. It is six years since a successful escape was made from Wandsworth Prison.