FOUR YEARS’ LIBERTY
ESCAPED PRISONER SURRENDERS. CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. After four years of liberty Leo Sylvester Hannan, who escaped from the Rangipo prison camp, in the Auckland province, gave himself up to the police. He appeared before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, charged with escaping from custody at Tokaanu on July 12, 1926. William Thomas Leggett, superintendent at the Paparua prison, said he the accused as one who had escaped from the Rangipo prison. He was committed there on March 18, 1926, in the Auckland Court. The sentence of six months’ hard labour and 12 months’ reformative detention. Hannan escaped on July 12, 1926. Hanan pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Waipa Post, Volume 41, Issue 3187, 12 August 1930, Page 4
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