ESCAPE FOILED
Prisoner Injured In Fall (N.Z.P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 26. A daring attempt by two prisoners to escape from the Auckland Gaol shortly after 11 o’clock on Wednesday night was frustrated when one of them, Herbert Harris Keith Maxfield, fell from a height of several feet, while scaling a stone wall and injured both his legs. The other prisoner, R,andall Reginald David Smith, who is serving a life sentence for murder, is stated to have abandoned his attempt to go any further and notified the warders when he saw that Maxfield was incapacitated. Maxfield was taken to the Auckland Hospital, and Smith was taken back into custody. Both men have figured previously in escapes from the Auckland Prison. It is possible that some person outside the prison had a part in the planning of the attempted escape. Some ground for this belief is given by the fact that early on Wednesday- evening the small wooden premises of the Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society in Khyber Pass road, a short distance from the prison, were broken into and a search was made for men’s clothing. It is not known whether anything was stolen. The intruders entered by breaking a window at the back of the building. ___
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23265, 28 July 1945, Page 4
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204ESCAPE FOILED Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23265, 28 July 1945, Page 4
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