ESCAPER CAUGHT AT GISBORNE
Alleged Accomplice Also Arrested (New Zealand Press Association) GISBORNE, Sept. 16. After 13J hours liberty Mohi Tamatea, aged 23, who escaped from the Gisborne lock-up this morning, was recaptured by the police in a house at Kaiti beach shortly after 7 o’clock tonight The arrest of Tamatea and a young companion, who is alleged to have helped him escape, ended an intensive day’s search in which all exits from the city were cordoned off and outgoing traffic screened. The police alleged the young accomplice scaled the 14ft wall of the exercise yard on to the roof of the cell block where he loosened a ventilator and helped to pull the prisoner up to the roof with the aid of a blanket. Tamatea was held on remand on charges of car conversion and breaking and entering and theft. His alleged accomplice in the break-out will appear before the Children’s Court.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29004, 18 September 1959, Page 9
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