Police Fail To Find Auckland Prison Escapees

Grey River Argus, 6 October 1948, Page 5

Police Fail To Find Auckland Prison Escapees

P.A. AUCKLAND, October 5. Wet weather hampered a police search in the Silverdale district today for the two prisoners who escaped from the Auckland Prison quarry last Thursday. A searching party of police and warders, which has established its headquarters at the Wade Hotel, covered open and bush country in the area during their search to-day, but no trace was found of the prisoners. It is thought that the prisoners, James Daniel Pease, aged 28, and Peter Seaton Young, aged 23, are resting in the daytime and travelling during the night. A police car, with a two-way radio, is keeping up a continuous patrol of the roads in the area.

A shed near the house of Carl Nordstrum, farmer, of Redvale Road, about two miles from Silverdale, was broken into on Monday, but nothing was stolen. To remove possible means of escape, the police have asked the owners of open boats,with outboard motors to take the motors out until the prisoners have been recaptured.