'One of the prisoners in Victoria Gaol, a Chinese under sentence of ten years' hard labour for uttering forged banknotes, made a second attempt to secure his freedom. On the first occasion, in 1896, he was so severd; injured by the glass on the top of the gaol wall that his recapture was a simple matter. On Saturday afternoon last he made his
of the wall, from whence he let himself down escape by climbing up a bamboo to the top Ashe was employed in the wash-house his into Old Bailey Street by means of a rope.
clothing, after being divested of the badge, did not attract the attention his ordinar convict garb would have done, and he made his way to the steamboat Heungshan, then about to proceed to Macao. But his escape was soon detected, and the Police quickly followed on his trail, boarding the steamer in time to recover the runaway, who was marched back to his cell. On the 26th inst., the prisoner's enterprise was rewarded by the magistrate with the addition of six months to his term of ten years.
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