ESCAPED PRISONER TRIED TO ESCAPE AFTER CAPTURE
Charged with' escaping from the Wanganui Gaol last Friday and with being unlawfully on enclosed premises. Leslie John Parnell, motor driver, aged 29, years, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth on Monday and was remanded to appear at Wanganui this morning. On the second charge he was convicted without penalty. Pleading guilty to the second charge Parnell said: “I was just sitting in the shed there. That’s not breaking the law is it?” On going to the railway yards in response to a call, said Cor.stsole B. W. Orlowski, he found accused in a shed with the door closed. Parnell gave a false name and address and tried to escape on the way to the Police Station. “I had to chase him to catch him,” said the constable. “He objected to entering the police station and had to be forced in.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 28 January 1948, Page 4
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