ESCAPED YOUTHS
Three Give Up, Two Captured (N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN. Sept 18. Five youths, all aged 17, who escaped from the Waipiata Youth Centre in the early hours of this morning, were in custody again tonight Two were found hiding near Hyde at 5.40 p.m., and the other three gave themselves up in the upper Manorbum dam area—more than 60 miles away. The escaped youths were: John Lawrence Odgen, Kimberley Maui Robinson, Charlie Rakauere Leaf. John Edward Te Rangi, and Hunuhunu Ropere. Odgen and Leaf were seen hiding in long grass by tbe railway line near Hyde by two railway workmen. The men went to Hyde on their Jigger, and returned with Constables A. Topping, of Middlemarch, and I. J. McGrail, who were manning a roadblock. Mr A. Titterton. the Hyde publican, who accompanied the party, said the youths offered no resistance. “They were hungry, and completely lost," he said.
The other three gave themselves up to the caretaker of the Manorbum dam, Mr N. Tohill, at 5.30 p.m., almost the same time Odgen and Leaf were captured.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29931, 19 September 1962, Page 14
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179ESCAPED YOUTHS Press, Volume CI, Issue 29931, 19 September 1962, Page 14
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