ILLICIT LIBERTY ENDS

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1930, Page 6

ILLICIT LIBERTY ENDS

TELEGRAPHIST TAPS WIRE NELSON PRISONERS RECAPTURED. ALLEGEDLY .TOOK MOTOR-CAR. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Nelson, Last Night. Two men escaped from custody last night and fled, it is alleged, in Mr. C. B. Hodgson’s three-seater touring car which disappeared from outside a residence in Seymour Avenue. They were recaptured to-day. The men were Leslie Sealey, awaiting sentence on a charge of damaging property belonging to the Public Works Department at a relief camp in - disturbance, which the judge described as a drunken riot, and Ronald ■ Edward Morrison, awaiting sentence on an abduction charge. They escaped while being exercised. The car was discovered abandoned on the side of the road beyond Takaka > early this morning. A jewellery store and two shops at Takaka were entered last night, and the goods stolen included £3OO worth of jewellery and a quantity of clothing and provisions. A telegraph linesman, Harold Homan, saw the two men at Puramahoi, six miles from Takaka, this morning. Mr. Homan, who recognised Morrison, was on duty and tapped the wire, thus informing the Takaka and Collingwood police. Nelson police officers had all the arterial roads watched and the prisoners were trapped between Collingwood and Takaka.