ESCAPE FROM BORSTAL.
YOUTHS IN A COLLISION.
BOTH STILL AT LIBERTY,
[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NAPIER, Monday.
Tho two native youths, William Broughton, aged 18, and George Thomas Bryant, aged 20, who escaped from the Waikeria Borstal Institution on Friday, came into collision in a car in which they were driving with a Gisborne-bound car on the Devil's Elbow, on tho main Napier-Gisborne road, yesterday afternoon.
Nobody was injured in the collision, and the youths took to the bush. Four constables left Napier last evening for the scene of the accident to carry out a search, but they returned this morning, having failed to find the youths' It is reported that the youths were seen going in tho direction of Eskdalo late yesterday afternoon.
A car owned by Miss Mary Mandeno, of To Awamutu, was stolen from near Te Awamutu on tho dav the prisoners escaped, and is describecl by the Hamilton police as being the one which was damaged in a collision on the WairoaHawke's Bay road, and abandoned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20562, 13 May 1930, Page 8
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