PRISON ESCAPEES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 356, 13 September 1933, Page 5

PRISON ESCAPEES

Still at Liberty

POLICE FORCE SEARCHING

Repori from Country

! Press Association.—Copyright I

Auckland, Sept. 12

The two prisoners, Harris ! O’Neill, aged 40, and George ; Eden Charles Hayward, aged 25, I who escaped from the bakehouse

of Mount Eden prison at 3.20 1 yesterday morning, are still at j large.

I Detectives and constables

j scouring both the city and country | districts for the two fugitives, and, j although a number of reports from j civilians claiming to have seen a man j answering to the descriptions of one i of the escapees have reached the polI ice, no definite trace of either man j can he obtained. Yesterday a civilii an reported that he had seen a man

i not far from Pukekohe about 8 | a.m., and he recognised the man as j being one of the escapees. Other rej ports have been received, but they j are thought to have been “false } alarms.” J The first intimation the gaol anI thorities received of the escape was ! given by the police by telephone

early yesterday morning. The police received information from a man that he had seen O’Neill in the city. The police telephoned the prison seeking confirmation of the report. On going to the bakehouse a warder discover-

ed that O’Neill and Hayward, who

j had bee'ijlocked in the bakehouse ear- } lier the same night to bake the prisi on bread, had escaped. [ O’Neill is an habitual criminal un- | dergoing a sentence of five years’ ! imprisonment, for house-breaking, jHe was sentenced in the Supreme Court at Auckland on June 5 last.

Hayward, at the time of his escape, was undergoing a sentence of seven years for rape. He was sentenced at Westport in June of 1929.