PRISON ESCAPEE CHARGED
BIG HAULS IN CASH BOUGHT MOTOR-CAR AND RADIO. [ Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, May 26. Francis Henry Gordon Guilford, who escaped from Dunedin gaol on Sunday while on remand on a charge of escaping from Paparua prison on May 3, was before the Police Court to-day on charges of prison breaking and numerous charges of breaking, entering and theft during his evasion of pursuit, to all of which he pleaded guilty. On the Paparua escape charge he was remanded to Christchurch. On the others he was committed for sentence. Evidence disclosed that the accused, in one house entered, secured £ll7 in cash, while in a solicitor’s house he got £l4 cash and £99 worth of jewellery. Accused had spent £4O on a motor-car and £l7 on a wireless fitted to the car.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 123, 27 May 1938, Page 7
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