Rockhampton Bulletin and Central Queensland Advertiser (Qld. : 1861 - 1871), Tuesday 12 April 1870, page 2


TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES.

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.]

BRISBANE.

Monday evening.

SIX persons including the Wild Scotchman attempted to escape from the Penal Station at St. Helena Island. They got away from the Stockade, and secreted themselves in the scrub on the Island. The Wild Scotchman was shot in the wrist at re-capture. All the prisoners

were retaken.