JUMPED FROM TRAIN
ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE.
WINDSOR BROTHERS AGAIN.
RECAPTURED LATER
(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) TE KUITI, May 12. Two prisoners, brothers named Windsor, who- had been sentenced yesterday at Palmerston North to hve years’ imprisonment for burglary, made their escape from the _ train as it was passing Te Kuiti at 2.50 o’clock this morning. The two- men were handcuffed together and as the, train was pulling out of the station got the poimission of the warder to go to the lavatory. The warder, followed, but the door was slammed in Ibis face and the men rushed through- the other compartment and' jumped off the train at King Street crossing. Word was sent back from Otorohanga and a thorough search was made, but with no result until eight o’clock this morning, when the escapees were located in the bathroom of a private hotel at Otorohanga and taken in charge by Constable- Fry without resistance.
It appeared that one man got dear of the handcuff, hut the other had his up his sleeve. They stole a motor-car and drove to Otorohanga, twelve miles away. The men will he taken on to their destination, Mt. Eden prison, today.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 May 1927, Page 9
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