FOUND ASLEEP
ESCAPEES FROM GAOL SUBMISSION TO ARREST FOURTH MAN MISSING AUCKLAND, yesterday. Three of the four prisoners who escaped from the Auckland prison on Tuesday night were recaptured early this morning sleeping under a large tree in a pine plantation about 200'yards from Titirangi Hotel on the hills west of Auckland. An intensive search had been made of this area by a large cordon of police since Saturday night when it was known that three of the escapees had travelled in that direction. As dawn was breaking this morning, Constable McTavish heard snoring near Titirangi road. Getting through the fence lie came on an open patch and saw the three piisoners sleeping under a pine tree. When Constable McTavish called to them they showed no disposition to resist, and said they would come quietly.
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Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 320, 8 October 1940, Page 1
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