TO EVADE POLICE

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 130, 29 November 1945, Page 10

TO EVADE POLICE

PROBABLY HID IN HOSPITAL P.A. AUCKLAND, November 28

While every available member of the Auckland Police Force was searching during the weekend for Colin David Jarvis. aged 20, the only one of four patients who escaped from the Auckland Mental Hospital last Thursday still at large, the wanted man was a patient in the Auckland Hospital. This, at least, is the belief of the police.

A man believed to be Jarvis was admitted to hospital under the assumed name of John Gardiner shortly after 11 p.m. on Saturday suffering from concussion. He was discharged at midday on Sunday wearing a bandage over his "i£ft eye. The man seen to jump from" ss train at Huntly at daybreak yesterday answered the description of the man treated at the hospital. On arrival at the hospital the man believed to have been Jarvis walked into the casualty department. He was bleeding from an incised wound near the left eye. He told a doctor he had fallen over. Several stitches were inserted in the wound.

Today the search for Jarvis in the Huntly' district was continued, a sergeant and eight constables being sent from the city to assist the local police.