THREE MONTHS’ GAOL.
ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY. (.Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, March 10. Cyril Christian Hayes, aged 25, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court today on charges of escaping from custody and converting a motor-car. It was explained that Hayes escaped from the Waikeaia Borstal Institution at noon yesterday, and a large party of warders spent all night in heavy rain searching for him. Ho took a car from Kihikihi, but ran out of benzine at Rukuhia. It was while he was endeavouring to obtain petrol that he was arrested by the Hamilton police. Hayes, who is at present serving a sentence of two years’ reformative detention, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour on the charge of escaping, and 18 months’ reformative detention for conversion of the car.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 127, 11 March 1936, Page 6
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