DOMINION NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11382, 6 December 1930, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS

prisoners Escape

CAR MISSING

Association > NELSON. Dec. 5.

•; Leslie Sealey, who' was ’ awaiting sentence on a charge of damaging property belonging' to the Public Works Department at relief works carnp in a disturbance w'hieh the judge described as a drunken riot, and~Ronald Edwafd Morrison, awaiting sentence on an abduction charge, while being exercised. escaj>ed from custody last night.' Later in the evening a straight-piglit three-seater car belonging to Mr, ■G. D. Hodgson disappeared from outside his residence in Seymour avenue.

HOME-MADE PLANE WRECKED

TWO YOUTHS BADLY BRUISED

(Press Association-! ,' r AUCKLAND, Dec. 5

Two young Auelclauders. Ernest and Arthur Edderson, who last year constructed all' aeroplane; which crashed on the first attempt to fly, yesterday attempted to get into the air with a. second plane of their own construction."' After taxiing along Muriwai beach and gathering a speed of 50 miles an hour the’Eft: wing collapsed, and the machine was completely wrecked. The pilot, Ernest, was unconscious for three-nuapters of. an hour, and was considerably- brnjspd. His brother was. h'u'rlrid through the side' of the fuselage, and alpo hruiped.

MEN RECAPTURED

LINESM AN TAPS WIRES

CPress Association.) ' ’ MELSON, Dee. 5,

Leslie Renlcy and Ronald Edward Morrison, who'escaped from custody at Nelson late yesterday afternoon, were recaptured between Taktika and Colli ngwoocl this afternoon. A ear which disappeared from Seymour Avenue, Nelson, last evening, has also been secured undamaged.

A telegraph linesman, Harold’* Horn an, saw the two men at PurAmahqi, six miles from Takaka, this morning. Homan,' who recognised Morrison, was on duty, and tapped the. wire, thus informing the Takaka... and Collin gwood ’ : police.' 'The Nelson police officers had all arterial roads' watch-‘edi'-and the prisoners' were trapped between Takaka and Collingwoorl. v .

- BOBRHRIES AT TAKAKA

(Prpss Assbciation.) ” : . 'NELSON.’Dec.!

Three premises were broken into' at Takaka early this morning, the jewellery shop of. Mr, H. . G.' . Tlipmpson, and .about £3OO worth of goods are missing; from. .Kirk and. Coy’s premises a couphvk of cases of benzine were, taken; while cheese biscuits and a. quantity of drapery vanished from Wadsworth’.s shop! . Some: unauthorised persons also visited the wharf.