FOUR SHOTS FIRED AT ESCAPING PRISONER
CAPTURED AFTER EXCITING CHASER BARS OF CELL WINDOW GUT THROUGH. HACK SAW USED. (Re.ceive.cl 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE This Day. Four shots were, fired at a prisoner named J. Bailey when attempting to escape, from Pentridge. Gaol. He was captured after an exciting chase. The prisoner cut through the bars of! his window with a hacfc saw, whfich was secreted in a cell. The warders heard a noise and the alarm was raised. Another prisoner, Leonard Cowley, tried to climb the wall and was near£ng the top when lie. fell and broke a bone in his f00t... Australian P.A.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 84, 20 November 1928, Page 5
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