A DASH FOR LIBERTY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8843, 20 June 1907, Page 2

A DASH FOR LIBERTY.

Per Press Association. Cheistchuech, June 19. Two prisoners at Lyt£elton gaol named E. McCarthy and A. Rawson made a daring but unsuccessful attempt to escape this afternoon.

With the aid of a long rope which they had manufactured out of bits of calico, they dropped over the high outer wall of the gaol made off along an adjoining thoroughfare.' The warder on the watch-tower saw the. men escaping, but he did not fire for fear of hitting the children in a school playground below. The gaoler and'a warder pursued the fugitives, and captured them in a private yard not far from the gaol. McCarthy has escaped twice before, and has been declared an habitual criminal. Rawson, who came from Australia in 1902, is at present serving a sentence of five years for burglary.