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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 10

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Rv lOV Third Time." said still another. The Daily Express said a serious row was brewing in of-tide circles "about the apparent esse with which persons known to be esrape-minded break out of English jails." Alfred Hinds is no average jail breaker. He says he does it to draw attention to his innocence. Sentenced to 12 years for his part In a daring; Inndon robbery. Hinds broke out of Nottingham jail in and remained free for 218 days, During his month of free dom, he flooded members of Parliament, the newspapers and television stations with well ritten letters protesting his Innocence.

Audaciously, he made a tape recording of a plea for a new trial and sent it to Britain's commercial television network. Hinds was nabbed, living in Ireland. In London's heavily guarded law courts he was brought to irial la.t year on a frihnical question dealing with one of his many appeals. Walking down a narrow dark corridor of the bahtile -like building, Hinds pushed his guards into a cloak room, locked the door, and dashed to freedom. Five hours later he was caught trying to board a plane for Ireland.

Yesterday afternoon he and another prisoner broke out of Chelmsford prison near Iory don. Unseen, they scrambled atop a shed, jumped to a low wall, scratched their way to a higher wall, ran along this, jumped Justices Kralfinn Kulinp; That County, Not Roberts, Ias The Siate Supreme Court has ruled finally that Alie-1 gheny County and not Pro-; thonotary David B. Roberts is I responsible for errors which may be made by a clerk in his office. i The high court handed down an opinion yesterday, denying I Af.i frrt Slot! Vi LONDON. June 2 Britain has one of the master jail breakers of the century' or some of Europe's flimsiest jails.

Alfred "Quicksilver Alf" Hinds. 41. escaped for the third time in 30 months yesterday, plunging Scotland Yard into "a massive manhunt and filling the newspapers with banner headlines. a extraordinary." said one paper. "The Modern Houdini Does It Again," said another.

"Quicksilver for the Peter Orri. of Stevenson Street, the light to a re argu ment in his case against 'Has i mi i v. 7 0 -V '-'I I I I if Vv- The case was based on an error made bv a clerk, who tsar xNX Press Wliephutu incorrectly filed a judgment for SS00 for Orris against Edith Whitaker. Because of the error the note was not paid when Miss Whitaker sold some property and Orris was unable to collect his $800. Roberts claimed he is a sal TRH ATE ELYIS-Here's Elvis Prosify, the rwk 'n' roll Idol, lit Memphis with a couple of his younger fans.

Elvis, 23, nw Is stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, as a t'k crew man. On leave, he expects to po to Germany soon. aried official and not responsi ble for the 16i employes of his office, who are actually employes of the county. Common Pleas Court upheld Roberts but the State Superior Court ruled against him. In an opinion handed down in May the Supreme Court reversed the Superior Court order and yesterday it reaffirmed its IMMEDIATE RESERVATION SERVICE IN CINCINNATI at the) lamoui NETHERLAND HILTON TERRACE HILTON ParkBiiilding Up for Sale The 13-story Park Building at the busy corner of Fifth Avenue and Smithfield Street is for sale, it was learned yes-terdav.

Asking price is $2,230,000. The building has been listed by a number of brokers. The structure has a stone and brick exterior. It has had 100 per cent occupancy for more than 10 years, C. L.

Hut-ton, manager, said yesterday. The building is owned in equal shares by Mrs. Frances Tark and bv a charitable General Electric UJ trust set up at Mellon National Bank. Ownership went 50 30 to the present owners upon the death of Mrs. Park's husband, Lewis A.

Park, in 1016. The Park Building, completed in 1898. was one of Hie first steel skyscrapers in Pittsburgh. Girl Finds Man's Body An 18-year-old school girl yesterday found the body of a man who apparently had committed suicide by jumping off the Fern Hollow Bridge, near Frick Park. He was identified as Vincent (I.

ITaite, 61, of 1234 Patton Street, Wilkinsburg. The man's crumpled body was sighted by Nancy Ann Cooke, of 210 East End Avenue, about 12:4.) p. m. yesterday. Nancy, a student at Allder-dice High School, was on her way across the bridge, located on Forbes Avenue, when she spotted the body in a ravine below.

Her father, Roland Cooke, investigated, then called police. Mr. Platle had worked for a year as a special patrolman at Presbyterian Hospital. He quit the job May 6. Homicide del eel vck V'' apparently had jumped two or three hours beiore o.s w'as discovered.

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