"He fled jail to escape jug," Kingston Whig-Standard. August 6, 1976. Page 37. --- Prison inmate Thomas A. Cybulskie, 59, who had to have a portion of one leg amputated because he froze his feet while fleeing last December from a minimum security institution, was granted an absolute discharge following his provincial court conviction on a charge of being unlawfully at large.
Cybulskie said that excessive drinking at Landry Crossing, a penitentiary farm camp in Renfrew County, prompted him to leave.
"I left the institution because there was too much liquor," he told Judge Ronald J. Delisle. "And if you didn't drink with them (inmates) you were laughed at."
"You're talking about brew?" asked the judge. or referring to home
"No, real whisky. All you ever seen around there was liquor and Baby Duck," the inmate said.
Cybulskie, who is now incarcerated at Joyceville Institution, said he left the Petawawa area farm camp on Dec. 24. He wandered in the bush area and was apprehended three weeks later in the Eganville area, court was told.
During the ordeal, Cybulskie froze his feet. Approximately six inches had to be amputated from one leg.
Judge Delisle agreed with Cybulskie's lawyer, Fergus O'Connor of Kingston, that in this particular instance, an absolute discharge would not be contrary to public interest.
