TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE
AWAITING SENTENCE AT NELSON P.A.) NELSON, Nov. 18. Two prisoners who had been ordered to come before the Supreme Court for sentence at 9.45 o’clock this mom l ing, escaped during the night from lie Nelson gaol. They are Phillip George Karaitiana, aged 27, and James William Leon Lewis, formerly ol Australia, aged 27, who were to be sentenced on charges of breaking and entering premises at Blenheim and of converting a car to their own use. Two cars taken from Nelson during the night were recovered at Brightwater early this morning by two men who had followed the cars. A baker on his way to work at 2.30 o’clock aaw a car travelling out of town towing another one which he recognised as his own. With a friend he set out in a delivery van to chase the cars, and found them abandoned at Brightwater.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23799, 19 November 1942, Page 3
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