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PRISONER DIVES THROUGH OPEN WINDOW Bv TelPuraph Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, March 8. An escape from his escort was made at the Stratford railway station tonight by William Joseph Fox, who was being taken to Waikeria prison. Fox and another prisoner were being taken north on the New Plymouth-Auckland night express, and made his dash to liberty by diving through an open window when the train reached the crowded Stratford station after 8 o’clock. Fox, at the recent session of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, was sentenced to two years imprisonment and two years reformative detention for an aggravated assault on two police officers and for bigamy. He figured in an incident in which a rifle was fired when two police officers attempted to interview him on a farm at Aotuhia, near Whang? momona on the Stratford main trunk railway. The Stratford station is in the centre of the town and Fox disappeared through the crowd. He is wearing civilian clothes. A search is being made by the police.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20671, 9 March 1937, Page 6
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173BOLT FOR LIBERTY Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20671, 9 March 1937, Page 6
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