RAID BY WARDERS
GAOL-BREAKER’S KIT SEIZED. PRISONER’S INGENIOUS PLAN. Raiding a cell at Pentridge gaol at Melbourne recently, warders found a curiningly concealed and ingeniously prepared gaol-breaker’s kit, on which a prisoner serving an eight years’ term for shopbreaking' had built his hopes for a Christmas escape.
For some days the man had been under observation, and a search of his cell revealed a miniature -blow-lamp, the size of a matchbox, and a length of rubber tube, a hacksaw frame made from an oddment of steel, small pieces of hacksaw blade, a home-made glasscutter and 12ft of stout cord with grappling irons attached.
Apparently intending to use the glasscutter, blow-lamp and saw to escape from the cell through the iron-barred window, the man would then have used the rope and grappling hooks to scale a drawbridge in the exercise yards and the inner and outer walls of the prison. The articles had been smuggled into the • cell from the prison workshop. To get the cord into his, cell, the man had opened a tin of jam,' 'which was part of his issue, removed some of the jam, inserted the rope and soldered the lid on again,
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1935, Page 11
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