Even Tries An O-Level

Evans was a criminal. He was quite a pleasant sort of person. He was arrested many a
time for stealing. But he was very clever and intelligent. Three times he had managed to escape from
piston. Evans expressed his desire to study the German language. He wanted to take the O-level
examination in German. So evening Classes are selected for him in the jail. The Governor fears that
Evans may try to escape from the jail. So the Governor of oxford prison takes all precaution for the
smooth conduct of examination. He orders Jackson, a senior prison officer to search Evans cell
thoroughly. He had taken away even Evanss nail scissors and nail file.
The examination was arranged in the prisoners cell. Cell was locked from outside. The
jail authorities arranged a teacher for him. It was ensured that there was nothing that could help him in
his escape. A device was put above the door of the cell so that the Governor could hear all the
conversation in the cell during the examination.
McLeery was a person who had been put on duty to invigilate during Evans
examination. But the one who really came to invigilate was not this person. The real McLeery had
kept tied in his room.
McLeery is found injured. It appears that Evan has injured him and has escaped.
McLeery shows the question paper to the Governor. A photocopied sheet is pasted on the last page of
question paper. It is printed in German. It contains instruction for Evans to escape. The parson (
McLeery) says that he knows where Evans could be found. He is at once sent in a police van to nab
the prisoner. The parson is bleeding badly and he is left at a hospital on the way.
But later it is found that no such wounded parson had come to the hospital on the way.
Now it is realised that it was not Evans who had escaped in the guise of McLeery, but it was Evans
impersonating. McLeery who had stayed in and be fooled the entire prison staff. The blood that had
been flowing from his head was not his own blood. It was the pigs blood. Also this McLeery was not
a parson even. The real parson McLeery had been kept tied by these men in his room.
The Governor had listened to all conversation between McLeery and Evans. Governor
remembered the index(313) and centre number (271) that McLeery had asked Evans to fill in. With the
help of an Oxford shire map, he could make out that the six-figure reference 313/271 was the code for
central part of Chipping Norton. He also remembered the word Golden Lion of correction slip. Thus
with help of these two clues, he was able to nab Evans in his room at Golden Lion hotel.