CUNNING ESCAPEES CAUGHT
SECOND BID FOR LIBERTY FAILS. NOTORIOUS N.S.W. CRIMINAL. By Telegraph—Press Assn,—Cqpyricht. 'Sydney, Dec. ‘4. Men who escaped from the patrol van on November 15 by tearing up the floor boards have both been recaptured. Joseph Schmidt, a notorious criminal, was caught in, a cave at Hurstville. He made another bid for freedom by leap- | ing over the heade of the police,, buv wus caught and, ironically enough, taken back to gaol in the same van from which he made the cunning getaway, This time, hpwever, the floor? was of steel.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1930, Page 4
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