Victoria Gaol is enclosed in high, smooth granite walls, the summit of which bristles with broken glass, and none but. a very sanguine criminal would contemplate the possibility of breaking out of It is not often Chinese are found with a sufficient craving for liberty to induce them to take the risk of attempting an escape, but on the night of the Bth inst., a prisoner, who was convicted at the last Sessi us for for-gory and sent to gaol for ten years, broke out of it and very nearly got away. It seems that he managed to make a hole in the roof of his cell, climbed through and succeeded in reaching the wall on the Chancery Lane side, climbed it, by means of a rope which he hooked over, and atopped into the road the other' sic But though clear of the gaol _he was not quit of the officers of the law. Two Indian policem"n espied and recaptured him before he had got many yards away. Ho was much lacerated by the glass on the coping of the wail, and in the fall seems to have hurt his spine. He was carried to the Gaol Infirmary, where he has leisure to muse on the folly of attempting to cheat the law. How he got the rope, with which he c itmbed the wall, has not yet, I think, been ascertained.
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