ANOTHER ESCAPE
PRISONER AT AUCKLAND (P.A.) Auckland, May 21. For the second night in succession an escape from custody was made in Auckland, when a prisoner gained his liberty from the cells in the central police station. The escape was an audacious one, in that the man had to pass the main offices in the station, where members of the police force are on duty, before he gained the street. The escaped prisoner was Robert Herbert Martinsen, aged 22, labourer, who was taken to the cells when he was committed to the Supreme Court after pleading guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to three charges of house-breaking and two charges of theft from a dwelling. Martinsen was at the central police station cells awaiting transfer to Mt. Eden gaol.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 118, 22 May 1942, Page 5
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128ANOTHER ESCAPE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 118, 22 May 1942, Page 5
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