ESCAPE FROM WAIKERIA.
MURPHY PLEADS GUILTY.
COMMITTAL FOR SENTENCE.
fBY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] TE AWAMUTU Wednesday.
Clement Murphy, who escaped from the Waikeria Borstal Institute last week and was recaptured at daylight on Sunday, appeared before justices of the. peaco to-day on a charge of escaping from custody.
Murphy, who is undergoing a sentence of threo years' .imprisonment, and Leonard Smith escaped during the lunch hour last Thursday. When recaptured Murphy had crossed the Puniu River to evade a guard at the brfdge. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed to tho Supreme Court at Auckland for sentence.
Smith, who was also recaptured, has not yet- been dealt with by the authorities.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19452, 7 October 1926, Page 15
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111ESCAPE FROM WAIKERIA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19452, 7 October 1926, Page 15
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