ESCAPED PRISONERS IN CUSTODY AGAIN

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3265, 8 February 1926, Page 7

ESCAPED PRISONERS IN CUSTODY AGAIN

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LIVING- ON '/“• ROAST LAMB

1 [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Last Night. || The two prisoners, Charles Wabie j and Samuel Rattray, who made a sen- a satlonal escape from the prison camp . at Rangltoto Island last Tuesday !■] morning: (in a dinghy fitted with an outboard motor) were recaptured at 5 the back of Cowes Bay, Waiheke, yesterday morning, and brought back : -a to Auckland last evening. Jpformation that the men were somewhere ; I in the vicinity of Waiheke Island was feS received by the police on Friday night and detectives Moon and McWhlrtor with 'Constables Butter, Teoward ,| and Audley were despatched by , steamer. Constable jsley, who is - stationed on Waiheke, states that yes- . terday morning, Mr W. J. McConnell ,|| postmaster, at; Cowes Bay, saw two escapees as they were leaving the rear of his store. They had ;!| something in a . bag, biscuits whldh they hud taken from the storeroom. MoCbhnell immediately Informed Coa-.’il stables Butler and Teoward who. w4?l| companled by Constable Isley, went toA-J McConnell’s place.,. Wahle and ray were traced into the bush behind ;; Cowes Bay. . After a search lasting two hours,! the police party at last were hot on/'!; the trail. The first to locate ;Mw|| two. men wan Sydney Weir, who saw' j the men in the bush. The other constables soon arrived and both Wahle and Rattray submitted to arrest: quietly, contrary to ,‘ expectations.' fc Neither of the men appeared to suffered from hunger or the weathcr-il Both were clean shaven. In fact, their 1; gear included a shaving outfit;, The »| only thing they said they we» ih.V'l need of was cigarettes! Both were •; clad in civilian clothes having got rid | ,pf.. their prison* garb, ThejTwdre; i ordinary cap). They stated the dinghy.. which they t,scd to escape from Ran- : gitoto Island was blown on the rocks : near Church Bay, and wrecked, ene aide b'dng »;pve completely in, Thejr.V had been uding a blanket for a sail and intended; to make for the mainland when they, were odistashore, distance Qf i,wenty tipijlo« from they were arrested; They they had experienced A-bad time sincethey made their escape on- Tushday,-xl ■After both had been arrested end handcuffed, a search of the immediate ! vicinity revealed that' the men had | lit ■ a camp, fire. The* had even.il killed a.lamb and after cooking it over , \ the fire, ato.lt.