WALKED OUT OF GAOL
PRISONER TELLS OF ESCAPE Press Association DUNEDIN, Today. For the first time since his recapture at Brunnerton. the story of William Rainsdon Avery’s escape from Dunedin Gaol on June 6 ws»s told in the Dunedin Police Court. He walked out of the prison gate early in the morning when it was open for tradesmen, crossed the railway line to where the steamer Karetu was lying and, according to his tale, was secreted on board by some of the crew. He left the vessel at Lyttelton, stole a bicycle and cycled to Greymouth, going thence to Brunnerton, where he obtained work in the mines. He was this morning charged with stealing a motor-car at Cave on May 18. with theft at Momona on May 21, with burglary and the theft of a safe at Dunedin and with escaping from prison. He pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence on all charges.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 713, 12 July 1929, Page 11
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