From the Dublin Daily Express, 6 February 1904:
“ESCAPE OF A PRISONER
STRANGE INCIDENT AT THE COMMISSION COURT
A good deal of sensation was caused in the Courthouse, Green Street, yesterday afternoon, when it became known that a prisoner named Samuel Hale, who had been put back for sentence in connection with the receiving of goods taken from a house in Wicklow street, had made good his escape from the cell in which he had been confined. The case in which Hale was involved had been heard
