ESCAPEE FROM GAOL
TWO MONTHS’ ADDITIONAL IMPRISONMENT. OBSERVATIONS BY MAGISTRATE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “The accused states that he managed to hide some brandy on his person when he was sent to Dunedin Gaol,” said Mr Luxford, Magistrate, when Thomas John Henry Foots, a plasterer, was charged with being an incorrigible rogue in that he escaped from Dunedin Gaol on May 13. “Ho then states,” added the Magistrate, “that he drank this brandy, did not know where he was and just wandered out." ' Foote pleaded guilty and was "sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, which he would serve on the expiration of the sentence he was now serving. Sub-Inspector O’Neill said the accused was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment on charges of theft in the Dunedin Court and on the following day he escaped. Nothing was heard of him until he was found on the ferry steamer Wahine. The accused had a list of 38 previous convictions said Mr O'Neill.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1939, Page 6
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