RECAPTURED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1926, Page 6

RECAPTURED.

THE ESCAPED PRISONER. TRACKED TO GREY LYNN. AN EXCITING CHASE. Exciting circumstances attended the recapture in Grey Lynn this morning, of Pone Karakaikore, the Maori habitual criminal, who escaped yesterday morning from the Mount Eden Prison. All last night members of the local detective staff and gaol officials continued to search for Pene, who had been tracked to Campbell's Point. Some of the oflicers remained until after midnight, but their chances of finding the escapee in the dark were small. Early this morning, however, Detective Moon traced'the Maori to Grey Lynn and sighted him first, at about 5.30 a.m., in Disraeli Street. Seeing the officer, Pene dashed into the back garden of a house. The detective was at his heels, but lost his quarry among some trees. Detective Kalder and Constables Muir, Baker, Hodgens and Mahoney Then arrived and reinforced Detective Moon. By that time, tho whole neighbourhood knew that the escaped prisoner was in its midst, and great excitement prevailed, especially among the womenfolk, a number of whom were by no means happy at the thought that Pene was about. The police were joined by a large crowd of men. Detectives Barling and Knight were also in the vicinity. On the directions of the officers, the whole block, between the Children's Home on Richmond Road, down to Rose Road, was surrounded. Somewhere in the centre of the cordon was Pene, and he must have known that the game was up. Suddenly, he ran out through the gate of a house facing Rose Road. Police and civilians gave chase, and Detective Moon drew to the front. Down a bank, through blackberries and over a fence, went Pene, with the officer gaining- upon him, and the excited pack a little further back. Finally, he ran out into a paddock near Messrs. Carr and Haslam's stables, off Rose Road, and there he was overtaken by Detective Moon. He offered no resistance and the officer handcuffed him. Pene was taken back to Mount Eden by Detectives Moon and Nalder. When arrested he was barefooted and was wearing a black shirt over his prison jacket. He still retained the Government trousers. Later, the police found a pair of civilian boots which he had been wearing prior to the chase. It is assumed that, under cover of darkness last night, Pene came out of hiding at Campbell's Point and moved across to Grey Lynn. He stayed somewhere near the Zoo and went to Rose Road this morning. It is understood now that Pene escaped while he was doing some work in the garden near the house of the superintendent of the prison, which is outside the walls, but close to the main entrance of the gaol. Hβ apparently walked across the railway lines at the back of the garden, and "then made off along Auburn Street towards Khvber Pass. Pene will, of course, be brought before the Court charged with escaping.