PRISONER ESCAPES

Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 3

PRISONER ESCAPES

DOING WORK OUTSIDE GAOL (Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April 29. A prisoner at Mount Eden Gaol, Frederick William Schluter, or Sluter, aged forty-tw'o, escaped from custody shortly before 4 o’clock this afternoon, and at a late hour he was still at large. At tho time of his escape Schluter, who is a mechanic by trade, was engaged in connecting telephone wires from the gaol to one of the wardens houses in Clive road. Mount Eden, at the rear of the gaol reserve. In order to accomplish this work the prisoner was permitted to leave the gaol grounds under the escort of a warder and to enter the house in Clive road. While completing the installation of the telephone in tho house Schluter made a sudden dash past his guard and out of the building. Although the warder immediately started in pursuit ho was unable to overtake the prisoner, who ran across the reserve and into some scrub near the Mountain road, where ho disappeared from sight. The gaol authorities were informed by telephone of the escape, and a party of warders at once instituted a search, combing a wide area of tho scrub-covered ground adjoining the gaol property. A short time later detectives and constables from the Central Police Station arrived on the scene unci joined in the search, but discovered no trace of the missing man, who is thought to have been aided by friends.