YOUTHS CAPTURED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20930, 21 January 1930, Page 6

YOUTHS CAPTURED.

FOUND IN EXHAUSTED > CONDITION. ' A CAMP IN THE SCRUB. (Per United Press Association.) MARTINBOROUGH, January 20. The two youths who decamped from fchcir employment Inst week and created a sensation in the Pirinoa district were raptured on Saturday by Constable Slccth, of Martiuborougb, in a woolshed where they had slept the night before When arrested the boys were thoroughly exhausted, and the first question they asked was. “Can we have a sleep.” At mid-day they were still sleeping off the effects of exhaustion. They were not in possession of the armsthey stble earlier in the week, having left them at a camp in the scrub. They came out into the open on Friday and opened a private mail bag, extracting the contents. Evidently in search of food, they broke into the house of a farmer, collected supplies of toa* sugar, bread, and butler, arid before leaving wrote the following note: "We thank you, dear JOe, for what we borrowed, and will always have a bullet ready on you; Philip and Brown.” An intensive search has been continuing in the bush, but the boys had slipped through by another track. They were captured without any fuss, as bad been feared. They had plenty of food, but were sorely in need of sleep. MASTF,RTON, January 20. The final diopter in the escapade of the two youths, a European and a Maori, was beard in the Children’s Court this morning when several charges of breaking and entering and theft were preferred against them. ■ They pleaded guilty. The magistrate recommitted them to the Wernrna State Farm.