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PRISONER ESCAPES. • SCALES PRISON WALL. (Bv Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Monday. William Frederick Murray, alias Jackson, alias Stanbrook, a steward and seaman, who was serving a sentence lor theft, escaped from Mt. Eden Gaol on Saturday afternoon, presumably by scaling the wall. Murray entered a bouse, where ho procured a suit of clothes, leaving his prison attire in exchange. lie has nut been seen since. Murray had been declared an habitual criminal. A CHILD DROWNED. INVERCARGILL, Monday. The infant son of William Plunkett, of South Ilillend, seventeen months old. wandered from the house and was found lloaling in the sheep dip, life being extinct BURNED TO DEATH. INVERCARGILL, Monday. Dun am James Mathieson, a returned soldier, assistant at the Kirchwood Dairy Factory, was burned to death in his hut on Sunday morning. The origin of the fire is unknown.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14262, 13 January 1920, Page 7
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