BRIEF LIBERTY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20104, 6 December 1930, Page 19

BRIEF LIBERTY.

ESCAPEES RECAPTURED. (FKESS JLSsociAJrio* maouL) NEISOK, December 5. Leslie Sealev, awaiting sentence oa - a charge of damaging property belonging to the Public Worka JJepariwment at a relief camp in a disturb- :: _ ance which the Judge described as » drunken riot, and Koaald fiivaxi Morrison, awaiting sentence on an T duction charge, escaped frazn costody " while being exercised last evening. = Later in the evening a straight * eight three-seater touring car, So- - 104-847, belonging to Mr C. B. _Hod&son, disappeared from outside Ma res*dence in Seymour avenue. The pair were recaptured between - Takaka and Collingwood this afternoon, and the car was also secured undamaged. - A telegraph linesman, Harold Homan, saw the two men at Parama- . hoi, six miles from Takaka. this morn- - ing. Homan, who recognised Momson, was on duty, and tapped th» wires, thus informing the Takaka #wt ~ Collingwood police. Nelson police officers had all the arterial roads watched, and the prisoners were trapped between ~ Collingwood and Takaka. _ Three premises were broken into a* - Takaka early this morning. Th» . jewellery shop of Mr H. J. ThotnaoJ*. _ was entered, and about i-300 worth. „ of goods are missing. From Kirk awl c Co.'s premises a couple of cases ®f. benzine were taken, while cheese, bi'cuits.. and a quantity of drapery - vanished from "Wadsworth's sh«p.