NIGHT ESCAPADE.
toj'hjte ' :^ho»ld^i%'-;v :^as;^ii^; ';'ul^r|;ai;/i:'^ti^ry : :-'t^itn;;; :at- ■■ Jiiriction;. Nearly' ' : onl i ■::.i-eccntr:Siin-; : d'a'o'i-^iwoifn^g- ';'s** wasi-vble^dfci r g'' ; aU' •fevhia.'Wy ■^•.? iinl-'-" '-■'"-tf :--'X<'':^: At the police- station,; fo told a atrango "narrative .. of hi© night's ■ ad-^ ventiircsi Giving bis ndme as Harry Kayi; and stating that:. ha lived at Shei*stonc-strest \ Edgcv-Hill,^Liverpool, he .said he put up:at;a Nantwich lodg-iug-ionise on Saturday.; nigh^t, but while m°bed he. heard ntfsuggestipn ;to take his -boots- away,. He got,up: and loft, and th G .police"' took him to tho workhouse. '.I'*',lie- escaped from there, but the police took him back, and he w;us then placed in a cell- ■'• From , liero -ho escaped through, a tiny \vindo\v after taking; off his clothoa. ' He climbed over the cometery railings, getting aimosb impaled in th.o efiort, ■scrambled and fell over -grave*; crawled through hedges and ditches, and got on to the railway at Willaston. ■From-there he raced '.along tho rougl macadam ballast for nearly three; miles, his feet becoming badly lacerated On tha way he met three trams ,and had to cling to the sid® of the embankment while they dashed past. At Orewo he ran among the moving trams, climbing over or u'ndef wagons until" a shunter rw him and brought his escapade to a
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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13648, 13 February 1913, Page 7
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208NIGHT ESCAPADE. Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13648, 13 February 1913, Page 7
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