SECOND ESCAPE
BOY FROM WERAROA FARM POLICE ESCORT ELUDED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRES3 ASSOCIATION] CHEISTCH.URCH, Monday One of two boys who were on their way in charge of a constable to the Borstal Institute at Invercargill escaped from custody when the party landed, at Lyttelton from the steamerexpress Rangitira on Saturday morning, and has not yet been recaptured. As the constable was shepherding his two charges from the steamer to the train one of them slipped away into the crowd, and the constable could not pursue hinj without letting the second bov loose. Shortly afterward a motorcycle was taken from Cunningham Terrace, and a carrier subsequently reported to the police that he had seen the machine being ridden through the main street by a boy who answered to the description of the boy who escaped. Both boys escaped some time ago from the AVeraroa training farm, and travelled in converted cars through the Taranaki, Rotorua and Tauranga districts, committing thefts on the way. They were recaptured and appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., m the Children's Court at Palmerston North on April 2, to answer charges of theft and car conversion, and were both sentenced to detention in a Borstal institute for two years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23011, 12 April 1938, Page 16
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204SECOND ESCAPE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23011, 12 April 1938, Page 16
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