ESCAPE OF PRISONERS.
HOKITIKA, November 4. [ There are no further tidings of the escaped prisoners. The search was actively continued, and all the available force utilised "^in .scouring the country iiTthe direction in which the prisoners were last seen. They | were then making for a place pitted with ■ numerous overgrown shafts, forming a source of danger to the unwary. The in- * jured warders are not incapacitated from '. taking part iii the hunt. Warder Morgan, who saw active service in South Africa and had experience of a few weeks' detention at the hands of De Wet, had a fierce struggle frith the prisoners attacking him before they . wrested^ the rifle from his possession. He I •managed to retain the" bayonet, which wa& wrenched off the gun. The escape is causing a good deal of alarm in the district .where the. prisoners are now supposed to be "it large. - ,The escaped-^- prisoners have separated. rh£ee slept in a deserted hut at Kanieri -"-fork*! - six. "miles from .town. They weut Into several diggers' hute and forced the .men to <riv« Hum jMQvisian*. wlnthin^
money, and tobacco. No trace has been discovered of the fourth prisoner. A large force of police is out searching, and there is great excitement in the district. November 6. Great relief was experienced when news reached town that the eanture of the other three escaped prisoners had been safely effected by Constables Dew and Baker about 27 miles from town. No resistance was offered. The police were assisted by two young men with excellent local knowledge. When arrested the prisoners were much exhausted, and cordially glad of their recapture, as the only alternative would have been starvation and exposure in the swamp and bush.
A telegram from New York pays tliat the Wedgwood pottery establishment c f Kngland has been engaged to make the «p\v service of china to be used, on State occasions at the White House. Since commencing the formation of the slop-bank at the Lower Hutt, Wellington, the contractor has raised from the river bed 15^,500 tons of shingle, with which the bank, 41 miles I«A2. has been formed*
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Otago Witness, Issue 2539, 12 November 1902, Page 20
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353ESCAPE OF PRISONERS. Otago Witness, Issue 2539, 12 November 1902, Page 20
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