PRISONER ESCAPES.
FROM WAIKUNE CAMP. Electric Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND Last Night. The police ar e conducting a search for John William Graves, who escaped from Waikune prison camp on Sunday afternoon. He must have got away half an hour after the warder made his periodic round at two o’clock.
Graves’ experience that night must have been an unenviable one for about a foot of snow fell in the National Park district and there is practically no shelter. For about four miles behind the house there is fairly dense bush and it seems likely that Graves would try to force his way through to get to the railway line. • Snow fell all through Sunday night and there was a high wind so that unless he was able to fin dshelter before nightfall. he would spend the wight in the bush. Day and night search parties are out and all points are being watched for signs of the prisoner.
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Pahiatua Herald, 29 September 1936, Page 4
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