Second Escape In Eleven Days

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31655, 16 April 1968, Page 16

Second Escape In Eleven Days

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 15. Two young men who escaped from the Waikeria detention centre 11 days ago are at large again.

They escaped early tonight from the Whangarei police cells by forcing an emergency fire-exit door leading from the cell block into the yard at the rear of the police station. Both escapers were to have appeared in the Whangarei Magistrate’s Court before Mr R. M. Grant, S.M., for sentence on charges of escaping and of unlawfully taking a motor-car. Senior Sergeant B. E. Wells said the men were last checked about 7 p.m. when they were in the mess room in the cell block. Shortly afterwards it was found that they had forced an emergency fire-exit door and escaped. There had been only one confirmed sighting of the men up to late tonight. Mr D. Nelson, a security patrol officer, saw the men thumbing a ride with southbound holiday traffic about 7.15 p.m. on the No. 1 State Highway near Otaika, a short way south of the city. He did not realise that they had escaped from the police cells. The Whangarei police believe the escapers could

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have been making for Auckland. They are: Robert Conehie Harris, a balf-easte Maori, aged 20; and Alan Donald Le Masurier, a European, aged 20. The men escaped from Waikeria on April 5 by absenting themselves from a working party. They took a car and drove it to Whangarei where they were caught a day later.