A PRISON ESCAPEE.
AN IMPROVISED ROPE. By Telegraph,—Press Association. Christchureh, Last Night. A prisoner named Reginald Matthews, who waa sentenced at Ctolstch«roh on August 8 to nine months' imprisonment for Indecent exposure, escaped from Lyttelton Gaol this afternoon from the prison drying yard. • He obtained several hammock ropes and a pair of blankets, which he joined together and threw over the wall. He clambered up this improvised rope, dropped on to the road, ind' made for the hills. Several search parties set out, but the mist on the hills favored the escapee, who had not been recaptured at 11 p.m.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1919, Page 4
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100A PRISON ESCAPEE. Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1919, Page 4
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