BREAD AND WATER.
Six-day Diet Imposed on Prisoner. ASSAULT PLOT ALLEGED. British Official AA T ireless. NAPIER, This Day. Found by gaol officials standing behind a cell door armed with a piece of wood, Ronald Scott Barker. 22 \ r ears of age, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court Avith attempting to escape from the Napier gaol. It was shown that Barker had broken up the bed and placed a portion upright in a corner Avith a blanket over it, giving the appearance that he was standing in the corner. The prisoner was waiting behind the door with a piece of wood from the bed in his hand, with which, the police alleged, he intended to assault the warder. The Magistrate (Mr Miller) placed Barker on a six-day diet of bread and water.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20653, 29 June 1935, Page 11
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132BREAD AND WATER. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20653, 29 June 1935, Page 11
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