MISSING PRISONERS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 263, 4 October 1940, Page 8

MISSING PRISONERS

CLOTHES FOUND

HOW THEY ESCAPED.

Per Press Association

. AUCKLAND, Oct. 3. The four prisoners who escaped from goal on Tuesday evening are still at large. Apparently they played hide and seek with the police throughout yesterday in the district between Shore Road, Remuera and Hobson Bay on the eastern waterfront. Three pairs of prison trousers and two pairs of prison socks were found early this morning on a' cliff near the residential property of Mr J. Martin Wilson, seventeen acres in extent off Shore Road.

The police have received a report that a light motor-car was stolen during the night from a garage on the property 400 yards from Mr Wilson’s residence. The police search in this area was intensified and citizens are taking the keenest interest in their operations. It is now believed that on Tuesday night the escapees had the key of the main door which was on the bunch of keys in the possession of one of the warders who were knocked unconscious, also that the key jambed in the lock and the prisoners then went to another door of which they had the key. It is believed they broke a stout padlocked chain which held the latter door bv swinging their combined weight.on it.