ESCAPES ONCE MORE

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 85, 11 April 1938, Page 9

ESCAPES ONCE MORE

BOY FROM WERAROA.

CONSTABLE ELUDED. INCIDENT AT LYTTELTON. (By Telegrnph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURC'H, this day. One of two boys who were on their way in charge of a constable to the Borstal Institute at Tnvercargill escaped from custody when the party landed at Lyttelton from the steamer-express Rangitira on Saturday morning, and has not yet been recaptured. As the constable wae shepherding his two charges from the steamer to the train one of them slipped away into the crowd, and the constable could not pursue hini without letting the second boy loose. Shortly afterwards a motor cycle was taken from Cunningham Terrace, and a carrier subsequently reported to the police that he had seen the machine being ridden through the main street by a boy who answered to the description of the escapee.

Both boys escaped some time ago from the Weraroa training farm, and travelled in converted oars through the Taranaki, Rotorua and Tauranga districts, committing thefts on the way. They were recaptured and appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Children's Court at Palmerston North on April 2, to answer charges of theft and car conversion, and were both sentenced to detention in a Borstal institute for two years.