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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1926, Page 8

Clarence Amos "Wood, "who escaped from Waimarino prison 'camp; last Saturday, and was captured on Monday, made good travelling during his two days of liberty. "You would not > have got mc if I had known -you -were so close," he told Constable Thompson, when he was taken. He appeared; to .think he was unlucky in 'being caught, and had evidently believed- that he - had slipped safely through the.police cordon. Keeping to ; the back-country trails and hiding in the bush, Woods had covered 80 of *cry stiff country. .Apparently he headed towards Otaire from - Waiouru, via the hilly, country Tound ; Mataroa. He had begged food from sheep stations, and-said: be was- looking (for wors. •Sleeping out on- very cold, nights seemed to have affected him very little, though he'was weary when caught.- Such .privations, apparnetly, are all in the day's work to the enterprising Woods, who is the same man. who left:- Winiata, Taihape, on. April 23, taking- with, him a girl, just under 12.. Riding: on the one horse, the pair headed for papier, .oyer a precipitous" mountain .road,: and had covered- 55 miles when caught.! . Smith and Caughey's Great Winter Clearance Fair now proceeding.' AH goods reduced to clearance prices.—- (Ad.)