TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE.
CAPTURE FOLLOWS LIBERTY. PURSUERS' DIFFICULT TASK. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] TAUMABUJN UI, Tuesday. Two prisoners, one named Prindle, who was serving a sentence of 12 months, and another, Litchwark, serving a sentence of three years, escaped from Rangipo prison on Sunday morning;. The officer in charge, Mr. A. Banks, sent ont an urgent message, and Mr. Glynn, the officer in charge of the Waikune prison, accompanied by a wafder, left by car for Waiouru at about 5 p.m., intending to head off the escapees if they went that way from Tokaanu. Mr. Banks and a warder picked up the trail on Monday morning, making toward Waiouru. Both parties met with misfortune. Mr. Banks had to abandon his car at a ford, and when last seen the vehicle was well under sft. of water. Mr. Glynn and his assistant spent the. night bogged in a i*oad about three miles from Waiouru. The parties subsequently met near Waihohora, and had the fugitives hemmed in between them and the cliff overlooking tho river. There was no hope of escape left and the men smrrendered quietly.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19469, 27 October 1926, Page 12
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184TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19469, 27 October 1926, Page 12
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