CYCLED ACROSS ISLAND
PRISON-BREAKER’S ADVENTURES. WALKED OUT OF DUNEDIN GAOL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, July 12. For the first time since his recapture at Brunnerton, the story of William Rainsdon Avery’s escape from the Dunedin gaol on June 6 was told to-day in the Police Court. Avery 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, theft at Momona on May 21, burglary of a safe at Dunedin, and escaping from prison. He pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence on all charges.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1929, Page 22
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