Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Tuesday 20 November 1951, page 4


SEARCH FOR GAOL ESCAPEE

MELBOURNE, Monday.

Every available policeman is searching for Maxwell Karl Skin-ner, who made a sensational es-cape from Pentridge gaol yester-day.

Skinner, whose escape has been described as the most sen-sational ever made in Victoria, scaled a 20ft. wall separating the remand yard from the prison farm and ran 200 yards across the farm to an outer wall.

He then climbed up the stop to an unmanned watch-tower

and jumped to the street out-side.

Two warders fired at him, but their shots went astray.