PRISON ESCAPEES
CHARGES OF THEFT PREFERRED. (Per United Press Association.) Gisborne, May 11. Handcuffed together and closely guarded, two men who escaped from the Gisborne gaol on April. 29, Norman Alfred O’Meara and Wilkin Rainsdon Avery, appeared before Mr Hewitt, S.M., and pleaded guilty to several charges of theft and breaking prison. They were sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on each theft charge and the hearing of the charge of gaol breaking was deferred.
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Southland Times, Issue 22013, 12 May 1933, Page 7
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