BETRAYED BY HIS SHADOW

Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1933, Page 10

BETRAYED BY HIS SHADOW

INCIDENT IN SYDNEY PRISON. A shadow which caught the eye of a Sydney detective, led to the capture of an escaping prisoner lately. ’ Detective Miller was standing in the exercise yard of the Campsie police station when the shadow of a man passed across the coat of an officer to whom the detective was speaking. Turning round. and looking upward, he saw a . young man, who had been arrested a short time previously on a charge of burglary, climbing along the roof of the cells. The man had his boots off and was making toward the ■ rear of the roof, where he could easily jump into a laneway at the rear. Drawing his revolver, Detective Miller called on the prisoner to stop. The man looked round and, seeing the pistol pointed at him, dramatically placed his hand over his heart and exclaimed, “Go on, then, shoot me here.” Detective .Miller refrained from shooting and induced the prisoner io climb down into the exercise yard. He was then locked up in another cell. Upon examination of the cell which the man had previously occupied it was found that several iron bars of the grille on the windbw had been removed by the use of a piece of water piping.