PAPARUA PRISON ESCAPE

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1930, Page 9

PAPARUA PRISON ESCAPE

MAN NOT VET KBCAI’TLRED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. A prisoner escaped from Paparua prison this evening. The discovery was made at 6 o’clock, when the roll was called, and the man .has not yet been recaptured. The escapee is Timothy Edward Cosgrave, who is serving a sentence of three years for theft. Cosgrave had been working alone in the stables attached to the prison. He was a parole prisoner and was not under close supervision. Cosgrave was a bushman, aged 47, measuring six feet three inches. He had still the major portion of his sentence to serve, as he was committed in May last. Cosgrave was serving his long sentence for having stolen on February 16 a handbag containing £4OO, the wages of employees of a sawmill in the Longwood district, Southland. Cosgrave filched the bag from the mill locomotive while the man in charge was off his guard. Cosgrave- was arrested at Round Hill, Southland, two days after the robbery. All the money was recovered except £47.