PRISONERS ESCAPE.

Auckland Star, Issue 38, 14 February 1929, Page 8

PRISONERS ESCAPE.

TWO WITHIN A FEW HOURS. ONE RECAPTURED. V !• K < ■ F.T-A WAY FROM POLICE M'ATIOX. Hii i'il mi t Tie lirols (>f r,n,. escape liv a !n: ~<. 111 ■i • \i--ici(!;iy afternoon, another mule a taw ;t \ from (lie Central .1'i•!"*i• Malion mi Iht; early hours of this ]'•'»! 11 i 11 _LT. Jan escapee v,;is a \oung man named • '"ini W . (' -1 k>rn i•, av 11 <> was charged at 111" Police Court with the theft ot ji-\\ <•! li-t ami iii i ill i■v,of a 1 ota i value " l Iro 111 a In m uat Mount lio-kill. U ' IK in n ivll .it tlie .-tat ion, !11■ >i a. sergeant ami a constable V|,|n 111 si k in-_r their rounds ot the cells : 'b"ill 1 o clock Uiis 111(i rniji l:', lie slipped 1,11 >W'"n l lie in. down the corridors and nut I lie backyard gale of the station. When <)-iioriie"s ii,! I in; was called ill ' ''"li' l ' Court this morn i ug, it was slated tii if lie had got aiiay l»y a. clever 'I he case agaiiiM. hi in was adjourned lor a week. Police are now searching lor tin: man. i

Quickly Recaptured. Taking ad\anlagu of the fact tli.it he b.i'l !>•■<" allowed to go to his home in to collect his ellccts, a planner, Bartholomew Mcllroy, leaped Ironi a window yesterday and escaped from a detective. Mcllrov had been charged with theft, and had been remanded in custody. A search was made and last evening the man was real rested in W'ellcslcy Street West.

It was on .Time It. 1027, thiit White hied <iii ;i policeman and detective when tlic.v called on Jlllll at his home in Great Sun I, K'uail in reference to the registration of a. shotgun. When charged at tiie J "lice ( oni I with fit tempting to murder ( oiisla Me Cower, White said that he had tried to put him buck in the asylum, triedto put him back in the asviu'm. "That is as good as trying to murder me, is it nor:" he asked of the magisl rate. In it statement to the Court, Detective Naldcr said that "Constable Powell and 1 went to see about the registration of :t and found White lying ill his He seized the gun and threw it into ;t shooting position. Constable Power grasped the weapon and I held White, who pressed the trigger. Had not the constable deflected the barrel he would have been shot. The bullet lodged in the wall."

The statement was made by White's mother that he left school early because of an injury to one of his eyes. He was married at the age of IS, and after living with his wife for about a year he came hack to his old home. He said he could hear voices vailing him and appeared to suffer from delusions along the line of religious thought. His mother then realised that he was not normal mentallv.