EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE.
PRISONER RESCUED FROM LOCK-UP.
fPisn Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, October 8. During last night or early this morning the Kaiapoi lock-up, near the post office and police station, was broken into and a prisoner named Gallagher, whom the police had arrested on the previous evening for using obscene language, was forcibly released. The affair was a most daring one, as here are three residences occupied within a chain or so of the lock-up building a strong brick structure, enclosed an a hiffh galvanised iron fence at the rear of” the Courthouse. It contains two cells, the doors of which are secured by iron bars, padlocked, and the outer door is locked up in a similar manner. Constables Holmes and Smither, who had placed the man in the cells, were about till after midnight, and the raid and prison breaking must have taken ?lace between then and 6 a.m. to-day. he rescue party, believed to include three or four of the prisoner’s companions, removed by force the fastenings- of the doors, using, ( probably, a bar of iron or similar instrument.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2628, 9 October 1909, Page 5
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180EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2628, 9 October 1909, Page 5
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