YOUTHS RECAPTURED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20962, 27 February 1930, Page 10

YOUTHS RECAPTURED.

HIDING IN A HEDGE. EXCITING CHASE BY POLICE. (Pee Dotted Press Association.) AUCKLANjp, February-26. The three youths who escaped .front thte Pokekohe police cells yesterday by forcing the bars from a window were recaptured this morning at Paerata. Yesterday afternoon and last night the police searched a wide area of country. Last evening it was reported’ that the prisoners were seen at Buckland, and the police appeared hot on the trail, hut the youths evaded capture under cover of darkness. They were supposed to have been seen at Pukekohe railway station about 10 p.tn., and there were grounds for the report, as at an early hour this morning they were seen. at Cape Hill, near Paerata, where they slept under a haystack. They followed the railway line to near Paerata, where they were seen by the police. An exciting chase followed, but the police missed the trail again in the scrub and railway cuttings. The prisoners were later observed to go into a hedge on Mrs King’s property at Paerata, where they were discovered by Constable O’Donnell and two other searchers huddled up like rabbits in a burrow. They were arrested and taken to the police station.