DAWKINS ESCAPES.
TEN MIXITES FREEDOM. RUNS INTO A WARDER. WELLINGTON, March 13. A daring and seemingly ingenious escape from gaol was accomplished on Sunday morning by the convict, Charles Campbell Dawkins, who managed to get away from the Terrace gaol. His freedom was brief, however, for he had the ill-luck to run into a prison warder who was just coming on duty. He was promptly detained and taken back to the gaol, after being away only about ten minutes. Dawkins, who committed many burglaries in Wellington, was captured in Christchurch, and was sentenced on February 25th last to six years’ imprisonment for breaking and entering and for a serious assault on Dr. McEvedy. - - r
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18430, 14 March 1922, Page 6
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