ESCAPED PRISONERS.
NO FURTHER TRACE FOUND. AN ERROR IN IDENTITY. ACTIVE SEARCH YESTERDAY. Advice was received by the police in Auckland yesterday that the prisoners who escaped from the Hautu prison camp, near Tokaanu, on Sunday morning were Edgar William Allen and Charles Bennett, the name and description of Augustine William Sullivan being circulated in error for that of Bennett.
Bennett is aged 26 and sft. lOin. in height. He has dark brown hair, grey eyes and a fresh complexion. He is a labourer and was serving a sentence of
three years' imprisonment for breaking and entering and theft from dwellings. His companion in the escape, Allen, is aged 30, sft. Bin. in height, has a fresh complexion, dark brown hair, blue eyes and a scar on the right check. The men were last seen on Sunday at Taupo in a Chrysler five-seater sedan motor-car belonging to Mr. R. E. Cuthbertson, of Turangi. The car is painted blue and is numbered 95-539.
Although an active search was maintained all day yesterday and last evening, no further trace of the fugitives had been found up to a late hour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21114, 23 February 1932, Page 11
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188ESCAPED PRISONERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21114, 23 February 1932, Page 11
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