IN WOMAN’S CLOTHES.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17242, 29 October 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)

IN WOMAN’S CLOTHES.

AMUSING ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. An attempt by a convict at Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, to escape in woman’s clothes caused much amusement and failed. While engaged in painting buildings outside the prison wall, he stole away under cover of undergrowth and forced an entrance into the house of the prison governor, who was away. He reappeared dressed as a woman, with a woman’s coat, reaching to his knees, below which were showing the latest fashion in women’s light silk stockings and quite nice-looking shoes. This well-made-up woman began lightly to trip across the short stretch of grounds separating the governor’s house from the Newport to Cowes highway. The convict saw a motor omnibus shelter near by, but, alas! forgetting that he was supposed to be a woman, he could not resist the impulse to break into a run. Officers and prisoners who had been following his movements with indifference at once suspected what was happening, and amid the laughing and amused comments of his fellowprisoners and other spectators the convict was recaptured.'