ESCAPEE CAPTURED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 247, 16 September 1935, Page 2

ESCAPEE CAPTURED

YOUNG MAN’S ESCAPADE. Per Press Association. ACJG'KLAND, Sept. 15. A young man who had been taken charge of by the police early yesterday morning escaped from the city station when being taken his breakfast, and a large body of police was engaged searching for him throughout the morning and early afternoon. Eventually he descended from a tree in the Domain and surrendered to a policeman.

Following his escape, which ho accomplished by brandishing a bar of iron ho had wrenched from a lavatory fitting, the young man calmly walked past a policeman who was returning to the station and. made his wav to the boardinghouse at which lie hail been staying only a short distance away. There lie bad bis breakfast, but upon the arrival of four policemen he rushed out to the back vard and, seizing a clothes prop, kept them at bay until he reached the fence, over which he clambered and quickly disappeared. When he was at the police station, the laces of his shoes had been removed and one shoe he had been wearing was found on a gatepost at the corner of two streets not far away, but no further evidence of his movements could be found. The police searched the Domain and many other likely places, even to as far as Orakei, without success. In the afternoon, descending from a tree, the young man approached Constable Collins, who was patrolling the Domain, and asked to be escorted to his board-ing-house. Later bo voluntarily entered a mental hospital for a brief period.