ESCAPE OF A PRISONER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13843, 24 December 1908, Page 5

ESCAPE OF A PRISONER.

A BRIE,F LIBERTY.

Per Press Association.

WELLINGTON, .Dec 23. Milford Burgess, who is. awaiting trial on twelye charges of breaking and entering, from, th«* Terrace Gaol at I.4s. this afternoon. The escapee tied two hammock ropes together and threw one end on a spike. He then clambered up the "wall and ran away. N Temporary . W,arder Sandercombe saw a man he believed to be Burgess, running kxjngestre, Street and thenco up a right-of-way 1 in Willis Street. He informed th» clerk of the prison (Mr Baxter), #ho. lives" opposite- the right-of-way. Mr Baxter telephoned to the prison asking if Burgess had. escaped. He was aware that a brother of Burgess occupied a honse in the right-of-way, arid in. communication' "with the police asked that—detectives ' with a search warrant might be sent down*. Detectives Andrews and Lewis- arrived promptly, but without a search -wai> rant. The -detectives watched the house."* Shortly afterwards Mrs Burgess, a sis-t tersin-law_ of « the^ escapee, arrived : .and gave the police permission without a search warrant, to investigate. Warder. Legett and Detective Andrews searched the top floor;- J)eteetiwe Lewis and Mr Paxter s.e4u-ching;.tbe, bottom floor. The escapee was fecund, lyj^ig, under a mattress in a bed «f the' fop' floor by ,Warr der Legett, who tboli h t im into custody and back to prison.