AUDACIOUS ESCAPE Murderer At Large- NEWS FROM THE PAST

AUDACIOUS ESCAPE Murderer At Large

The Mercury Thursday 25^th December 1941 (XMAS)

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Cyril Estcourt, alias Robert Estcourt (26), a convicted murderer, who has been detained at Lachlan Park Hospital, New Norfolk, made a daring escape from the Institution yesterday.

Estcourt, who was last seen in the criminal division exercise yard about 3.15 p.m., was with about 30 other, patients. When they were called to tea, Estcourt apparently ran along a side fence, climbed on the stone wall fronting on the main hospital avenue, and jumped about 10ft to the road. He was not missed until all the patients were counted.

ROBERT ESCOURT

Convicted murderer, who escaped from Lachlan Park Hospital, New Norfolk, yesterday into the main division, and although a search was made immediately no trace of him was found.

New Norfolk police officers and other police in the district had searched a wide area by 10 p.m. and at that hour there was no trace of the escapee. Estcourt is 6ft. 2in. in height, is of slim build, and has a fresh complexion. He has one finger missing on the right hand and the third and fourth fingers missing on the left hand. He has tattoo marks on both arms. The police are anxious to hear from anyone able to give any information about the escaped man. Estcourt was concerned In a murder at Grass Tree Hill, near Risdon, in 1939.

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