COULD NOT HOLD HIM
ESCAPED FROM GAOL. (Per United Press Association.) Ohakune, November 12. At the Ohakune Court, before Justices Sargeant and Larkin, W. C. Wahle, with several aliases, who escaped from the Raetihi lock-up last month, pleaded guilty to eight charges of breaking, entering and theft whilst at liberty, false pretences, valueless cheques, and breaking gaol. He was committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for sentence. For the thefts of explosives from a person unknown, he was dealt with summarily and sentenced to three months, and for breaking gaol, eighteen months. He made a sworn statement exonerating the police from any negligence, declaring that the lock-up was unable to hold him. He had no outside assistance and will continue to refuse to divulge the mystery of the method of his escape.
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Southland Times, Issue 20641, 13 November 1928, Page 10
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