ESCAPE FROM GAOL
A LIFE SENTENCE. LIBERTY FOR 24 YEARS. APPREHENDED BY CHANCE. Sentenced 21 years ago for life imprisonment for a mail robbery at Salt Lake City, Frank Grigware, then 20 years of age, escaped from gaol within three months of his incarceration and succeeded in utterly obliterating himself. For two years he lived quietly in Western Canadian villages and then settled at Jasper (Alberta), where he married and became the father of a large family. With two daughters attending high school and enjoying the confidence of the community of Jasper, James Fahey completely divorced himself from his criminal career an his farm was a model homestead. Annoyed recently by marauding deer, which were injuring his crops, he shot one animal and was prosecuted by the mounted police because tk« shooting occurred in a Federal game preserve. Once he was arrested Fahey’s fingerprints were identified as those of Grigware. The United States Government is demanding his return to serve his life sentence. while his neighbours of the last 20 years are appealing to the GovernorGeneral to intercede for a man who has
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 108, 9 May 1934, Page 5
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183ESCAPE FROM GAOL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 108, 9 May 1934, Page 5
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