Post by BereniceUK on Apr 18, 2017 19:50:49 GMT
POLICE COURT SURPRISE.
FOUR SOLDIERS ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY.
Disappeared While Under Military Guard.
Assistant Gaoler Cavell reported to Mr. Garrett at Bow-street, to-day, that four soldiers arrested as absentees had escaped from the court.
The magistrate expressed his surprise, and asked how it happened.
The assistant gaoler replied that the men were under military guard at the time, and had been taken to the office for the purpose of having certain Army forms filled in.
The magistrate directed inquiries to be made.
A fifth absentee is reported to have escaped from Bow-street Police Station this morning.
(Lancashire Daily Post, January 1917)
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ABSENTEE WHO ESCAPED FROM CUSTODY.
One of the five absentees who escaped from custody at Bow-street last week was recaptured in Parliament-square on Tuesday. He was brought before the magistrates to-day, and ordered to be handed over to a military escort.
(Lancashire Daily Post, 10 January 1917)
FOUR SOLDIERS ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY.
Disappeared While Under Military Guard.
Assistant Gaoler Cavell reported to Mr. Garrett at Bow-street, to-day, that four soldiers arrested as absentees had escaped from the court.
The magistrate expressed his surprise, and asked how it happened.
The assistant gaoler replied that the men were under military guard at the time, and had been taken to the office for the purpose of having certain Army forms filled in.
The magistrate directed inquiries to be made.
A fifth absentee is reported to have escaped from Bow-street Police Station this morning.
(Lancashire Daily Post, January 1917)
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ABSENTEE WHO ESCAPED FROM CUSTODY.
One of the five absentees who escaped from custody at Bow-street last week was recaptured in Parliament-square on Tuesday. He was brought before the magistrates to-day, and ordered to be handed over to a military escort.
(Lancashire Daily Post, 10 January 1917)