ESCAPE OF A PRISONER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11448, 30 January 1918, Page 8

ESCAPE OF A PRISONER.

FROM A MOVING TRAIN.

(Per Freu AmoslrEob,)

Auckland, Jan. 30.

Joseph Thomas Christie, who escaped from Avondale Mental Hospital, was captured at Paten, taken to Wellington and charged there ■wih theft. Ho was being convoyed to Auckland on the Main Trunk express this morning, in company with another prisoner, in charge of two constables. As the train was approaching a suburb Christie asked permission to enter the lavatory, which was granted. Shortly suspicion was aroused and investigation showed that Christie had got through tire lavatory window end escaped. The train was going slow at the time and the prisoner was probably uninjured “So far no trace of him has been found.