DASH FOR LIBERTY FAILS
ESCAPEE SOON CAPTURED
PRISONER CHARGED WITH MURDER
JUMP FROM NAPIER GAOL ROOF.
ADVANTAGE OF GUARD’S ABSENCE
By Telegraph—Press Napier, April 9. The police guarded all roads leading from Napier to-day in an effort to rearrest Charles William Price, who escaped at 10.40 a.m. from the Napier gaol, where he was awaiting trial on a charge of murdering Evelyn Mary Madden at Argyll East, Waipawa, early last February. . Price was later recaptured in the hills eight miles west of Napier. Price was to have appeared in court on Thursday, but during the temporary absence of a warder he mounted the roof of the prison and jumped to the roadway.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1935, Page 9
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