ESCAPE FROM ISLAND

Evening Star, Issue 21722, 17 May 1934, Page 3

ESCAPE FROM ISLAND

TWO PRISONERS AT LARGE [Per Unithu Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 10. Two prisoners escaped from the camp on Rangitoto Island early this morning. They are believed to have left the island in a dinghy after breaking into a bach at Islington Bay to obtain civilian clothing. A search was made by a warder from the prison cam)), assisted by the waterfront police, but the men were not recaptured. Tire prisoners are both young men serving short sentences. They are Roy Taylor, aged twenty-three, and James Macandrew, aged twenty-five. Taylor was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment last November on each of two charges of vehicle conversion and also on one charge of theft, the terms to be cumulative. He had therefore loss than three months to serve. Macandrew was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for theft at the end of last December, and was due for discharge in a few weeks’ time. There arc twenty prisoners on llangitoto Island, all serving short sentences. They are under the charge of two prison officers.