| The body language of the escaper, who approached my position, was one of utter dejection, head down, shambling forward with obvious reluctance. |
| Britain's most prolific prison escaper was Wally Angel Face Probynyn, who skipped out of jails or Borstals a total of 16 times. |
| For journalists, too, the game of tracking down the escaper has changed. |
| Survival on a southern chain gang is the main theme of this book in which a prolific escaper pits himself against authority in a constant test of wills. |
| He was the pimpernel, the odd man out, the great escaper, the prisoner of Rio, the lovable rogue on the run. |
| Like every prisoner in that 18th-century castle in Saxony, Crawford was a one-man awkward squad, a habitual escaper and troublemaker. |
