GAOL BREAKING IN WELLINGTON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2382, 24 December 1908, Page 5

GAOL BREAKING IN WELLINGTON.

A DARING ESCAPE. PROMPT RECAPTURE. [Phess Association.] WELLINGTON, Dec. 23. Milford Largess, who is awaiting trial on twelve charges of breaking and entering, escaped from the Terrace gaol at 1.45 this afternoon. The escapee tied two hammock ropes together and threw one end, with a loop in, to the top of the wadi, where it hitched on- a spike. He then clambered up the wall and ran away. Temporary Warden Sandercoinbe saw a mdn lie believed to be Burgess running in Ingestre street, and thence up a right of way in Willis Street., He informed the clerk of the prison, Mr Baxter, who lives opposite the right-of-way. Mr .Baxter telephoned to the prison asking if D urgeSs Tiad escaped. He was aware that a brother of Burgess occupied a house in the right-of-way, and, in communication with the police, he asked that detectives with a search warrant might be sent down. Detectives Andrews and Lewis■>arrived promptly, but without a search warrant. The detectives watched the house. Shortly afterwards Mrs Burgess, sister-in-law of the escapee, arrived and gave the police permission without a search warrant to investigate. Warder Leggett and Detective 'Andrews, sea relied the top floor, Detective Lewis and Mr Baxter searching the bottom floor. The escapee was found lying under a mattress in a bed on the top floor by Warder Leggett, who took him into custody and back to the prison.