DARING ESCAPE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 286, 16 September 1935, Page 6

DARING ESCAPE

CONSTABLES KEPT AT BAY. PRISONER WITH CLOTHES PROP. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 15. A young man who had been taken charge of by the police early yesterday morning escaped from the city police station when being taken his breakfast and a large body of police was engaged searching for him throughout the morning and early afternoon. Eventually he descended from a tree in tho domain and surrendered to a policeman. After his escape, which lie accomplished by brandishing a bar of iron he had! wrenched from a lavatory fitting, the young man calmly walked past a policeman who was returning to the station, and made his way to the boarding house at which he had been staying, only a short distance away. There he had his breakfast hut upon the arrival of four policemen lie rushed out to the backyard and seizing a clothes prop, kept them at bay until he reached the fence, over which he clambered and quickly disappeared.

When ho was at the police station the laces of his shoes had been removed and one shoe he had been wearing was found on a gate post at the comei of two streets not far away, but no further evidence of his movements could be found. The police searched the domain and many other likely places even to as far as Orakei, without success. In the afternoon, descending from a tree, the young man approached Constable Collins, who was patrolling the domain, and asked to be escorted to his boarding house. Later he voluntarily entered a mental hospital tor a brief period. _____