SURRENDERS TO POLICE
POUR YEARS FREEDOM FROM GAOL By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Aug, 11, After four years of liberty Leo Sylvester Hannan, who escaped from the Raiigipo prison camp, Auckland, on. July 12, 1926, gave himself up to the police here and appeared this morning before the Magistrate on a charge of escaping from custody. He pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. In a statement to the police Hannan, who had been imprisoned for the theft of beer from a hotel, said he felt unwell in the prison camp, and therefore escaped, travelling into the country and working on the' Hauraki drainage works for a time. Lately he had been worrying over the escape and- so decided to give himself up.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1930, Page 14
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