PRISONER RECAPTURED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 177, 27 June 1938, Page 2

PRISONER RECAPTURED.

EXCITING CHASE. INCIDENT AT AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. . AUCKLAND, June 26. Twice chased through the streets of Freeman’s Bay late on Saturday night, a man who was subsequently identified .as Colin "William Glass, an escaped prisoner, was rearrested after he had scaled a fire-escape and taken refug© in a wardrobe in a locked bedroom at an liotel. The arrest resulted from the tenacity of Constables A. E. Carson , and R. Bawden, of the Freeman’s Bay station, and ended a thorough ; search that has been in progress throughout the Dominion since Glass escaped from the, Waikeria Borstal Institute on April 18.

Routine attention to duty on the part of Constable Carson was the origin of the two chases and ultimate arrest. He saw two men near an hotel and notice done of them open the door of a motor-car parked nearby. Approaching quietly, the constable saw the man who had opened tho car door suddenly take to lus heels. He promptly gave chase and caught the man.

. Although lie had never seen the missing prisoner Glass, Constable Carson was familiar with liis photographs and was partly convinced that the man he had overtaken was the fugitive. Ho questioned the man, who gave the name of Roy Williams. The man offered to prove liis name by giving an address where he said there lived a man who could identify him. . With Constables Carson and Bawden the man was taken to the address ho liad given. There was nobody at home, however, and on the way back to tho police station, while the three were walking in Victoria Street West, the man suddenly bolted. For nearly a quarter of a mile the man managed to keep ahead, hut near an hotel he suddenly changed direction across a section beside the hotel. He ran with all possible speed, jumped an iron fence, straddled a brick wall, and. dropped . about 10 feet into a paved yard, landing among rubbish tins. . In a moment he was on his feet and ran nimbly up a fire escape, disappearing through a window. Convinced that the man would attempt to run through the building and leave by the front door, Constable Carson posted himself outside the building. Constable Bawden, however, who had taken a short cut, followed the man over the fence and wall and up the fire escape. Inside the bedroom there was at first no trace of the missing man. The door was locked, however, apparently from the outside, and Constable Bawden found the man bidden in a wardrobe. He promptly arrested him and toqk him down the fire escape and later to the city police station, where he was charged with bemg found unlawfully on the premises. * Detectives on duty who had seen Glass previously identified the man as the missing prisoner. The identification was later confirmed, bv a comparison of finger-prints and Glass was lodged in the cells. He will appear in Court to-morrow charged with escaping from custody and also with being found unlawfully on the premises.