A SCHOOLBOY'S ESCAPADE
EVADING SEARCH PARTIES. A Wanganui College boy. Funcourt Hnrrisu4i,. is just- now bewildering the police and his relatives by a rather erratic trek: Yonaig Harrison, who . is fifteen years old, is a grandson of Archdeacon Fanoourt. Five "days ago he was to leave for Patea to spend his holidays there, but before the time came he disappeared. He is known to have liad £1 10s 6d m his pocket. Ho was traced as having been at Castlecliff on the afternoon of his first day out. Ax. a store there he bought two loaves of bread, a couple of bottles of lemonade, and several boxes of matches. Then he made off towards Taranaki. He was next reported passing through Maxwelltown, fourteen miles away. Search parties were formed to endeavor to bring him back to the fold. At Waver-ley, Harrison met some of his college mate's, and told them a little about his j>eregri nations. Thenceforth it was quite unsafe to be a Wanganui College boy, foi the police, whose aid 'had been invoked' m tlie search, fastened on one or two who were utterly innocent of being Ha.rrison. and could only be persuaded -' with great . difficulty not to transport them to Wanganui. Han-iron was also reported to have been seen at Whcnuakura., ckso lo Patea. The most reliable report, however, was .given by the Wavcrley coachman to Mis Harrison when she arrived there to look for her son. Recognising the boy, from lire fact that he wore an oilskin coat, the coachman remembered that he had driven him to the railway station that morning. Inquiry Was made at the ticket office, and it was ascertained that the youth had .changed his vonue altogether" by taking out a ticket to Masterton and leaving bj' th© morning train. The police liberated all tlie suspects on the coast, and turned their attention to the Wairarapa. It is understood lhat a boy answering Hanison's description has* been seen m the neighborhood of Masterton, but so far no sreioess has attended the search: ■
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10692, 16 May 1906, Page 4
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340A SCHOOLBOY'S ESCAPADE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10692, 16 May 1906, Page 4
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