IN CUSTODY AGAIN.
ESCAPED PRISONERS.
SMART ARREST EFFECTED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WANGANUI, Tuesday,
The two prisoners who escaped from the Waikune prison camp in National Park on Sunday afternoon were apprehended near Raetihi this afternoon.
The men were seen by a lorry driver on the main road southfof Raetihi and the police were communicated with. A search of the locality revealed no trace, but when Constable Beaton was returning to Kaetihi he noticed two men come out on to the road some distance ahead.
Hie constable proceeded on foot until lie came up with the men, whom he recognised as the missing prisoners. They offered no resistance while they were being handcuffed, and returned to the Raetihi gaol in the constable's car.
The prisoners are Ronald Deinpsey Crook and Harry Ossie Fielding. Crook is a labourer, aged 22, and was serving a sentence of two years' imprisonment on each of five charges of breaking and entering at Wellington. Fielding, a cook, aged 26, was serving a sentence of 18 months' imprisonment on each of two charges of breaking and entering at Auckland.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 127, 1 June 1938, Page 13
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