ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16583, 16 November 1921, Page 4

ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE.

AITCHESON HAS ANOTHER. TRY. Allan Aitcheson, who escaped from custody on November 6 last, and was captured on Sunday, was sentenced at Dunedin yesterday to an extra twelve months on his five years’ sentence for assaulting a constable. Aitcheson made a further desperate attempt to escape from the custody of the police while he was being brought to Paparua Prison yesterday by the second express. He suddenly smashed one of the windows of the carriage in which he was travelling and made a bold attempt to break away, but the two constables who were escorting him noticed the move and grappled with him before he could escape. A desperate scuffle ensued for a few seconds until Aitcheson was overpowered and handcuffed. He was then brought safely to Christchurch and was lodged in Paparua. gaol last night. A police officer expressed the opinion that Aitcheson was too desperate a character to be sent to Paparua prison, but should be detained in some gaol where he would have no possible chance of breaking away again. A message received from Dunedin on November 6 stated that Aitcheson and another man named Arthur Plunkett, a one-armed man who was sentenced to three years’ reformative treatment for forging and uttering, escaped from the Dunedin gaol at. 11 o’clock that morning. They broke a lock in the exercising yard of the gaol and jumped from a window, a distance of twenty*five feet, to the garden below and made good their escape. Aitcheson was recaptured on Sunday.