YOUTHFUL ESCAPEES.
week-end at liberty. tradesmen victimised, captured in taxi-cab. [BX TELEORArH.—PriESS ASSOCIATION.] PALMERSTON NORTH. Monday. Some interest attaches to the week-end adventures of two escapees from the Weraroa training farm, Reuben Curtis Warnock, rued 19 years, end Xorraan Paul Nesbit, aged 18 years. They absconded on Friday evening, making f ov Pahnerston North. Each in turn representing that he was the nephew 0 f a well-known local doctor obtained clothing on credit at several stores. On Sunday evening during a service they mounted two bicycles outside a church and rode ' to Feilding. On Monday morning, claiming relationship with a local butcher, they obtained complete outfits valued at about .CIS. They next entered a dwell.'ng, securing jewellery and money. This morning they decided to return to Palmerston North, and hired a taxicab, but Detective-Sergeant Quirke, from information received, was waiting in the Square, and when the taxi-cab and the two young occupants came in view he made the third passenger and drove to the police station, where full confessions were obtained. They will appear in Court to-morrow morning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18021, 21 February 1922, Page 6
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