TRAPPED IN BUILDING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 10

TRAPPED IN BUILDING

ESCAPED PRISONERS

PERSUASIVE FIRE HOSE

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. While a party of police stood below two escaped prisoners who were "treed" in the rafters of a building at the Islington Freezing Works, hurled defiance in the shape of detachable portions of machinery. Two men escaped from the Paparua Prison quarry shortly before 5 o'clock last evening, and it was not until 7.30 that they were recaptured. The men were both sentenced to terms at the prison within the last two months. The search was narrowed down to an area around the freezing works, and a party of about twenty men, under Detective-Sergeant Bickerdike, went to the scene. The prisoners hid in two vats used for churning blood and bone for manure. One of the searchers accidentally switched on the control for the vat and the machinery inside began to move. Immediately one of the prisoners came out from his hiding place and made his way to the rafters of the roof. His companion soon followed him. The men made their stand and resolutely refused to come down. It was at this stage that the pieces of machinery were thrown. However, the prisoners' truculent attitude soon changed when a strong stream of water from a fire hose wns directed on them. Their position was made untenable and they surrendered On a charge of escaping from Paparua Prison, Philip Daniel Trainor and John Henry Wilson appeared in the Magistrate's Court today. They were remanded until September 13.