CONVICT ON ROOF.
CAUGHT BY WARDERS. By Telegraph.’—Press Assn —Copyright. ‘ Received July 9, 5.5 p.m. London, July 8. Warders at midnight thought to surprise the escaped Parkhurst prisoner, who during the service at the prison took a flying leap into the pulpit, climbed the beams above, and disappeared through a skylight. He spent the night and a day on the roof. However,.he was wide awake, and, sheltered behind a chimney, he sent out a fusilade of slates. The warders were not hurt, and they overpowered the convict, whom they roped up and lowered to the ground. He had been without food for thirty-eight hours.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1925, Page 7
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