ESCAPE FROM MENTAL HOSPITAL.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16272, 24 July 1918, Page 8

ESCAPE FROM MENTAL HOSPITAL.

TWO MT7BDEHEES AT LABGE. (PBES3 ASSOCIATION TE LEGE All.) XUCKLAND, July 23. v Two men convicted of murder, inmates of the Mental Hospital at Avondale, escaped last night, and are still at large. The escapees are:— ■Norman Edward Keala, who murdered his sister-in-law and her infanl, at Onewhero, on February Bth, 1915; Faela Kai Nuku, liarotongan, who was convicted on March 6th, 1917, tor the murder of Kenneth Livingstone, at Mangapehi, on July 26th, 1916. Both men were last seen by the attendants in the reading room of ohe mental hospital at 7.15 p.m. Short'y after the door '»vas found open and the meu wcro missing.

ONE MAN RECAPTURED. Later. The Rarotongan, Faela Kai Nuku, who, with Norman Keals, escaped from the mental hospital on Sunday evening, was recaptured near Henderson this evening. Keals took rofuge in a forty-acre patch of gorse, which has been . surrounded bv a party of police. Their strength, nowever, is not sufficient to warrant them entering the bush, and. strong reinforcements are being sent out. It is expected that his capture will bo effected to-night. Particulars of the capture of Nuku show that Muir, the hospital farm manager, who was by himself, saw the two escapees crossing the road into the scrub. Riding up 4 he fired two shots into the air, calling on the men to surrender. Nuku at once threw up his hands, bnt Keals dashed on.