EXCITING POLICE CHASE

Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1932, Page 9

EXCITING POLICE CHASE

SPEEDING AT SIXTY MILE&

SUPPOSED PRISON ESCAPEES.

CAR ABANDONED IN DARKNESS.

TWO MEN ESCAPE INTO HILLS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Whakatane, Last Night An exciting chase after two men, supposed to be the prisoners Arthur Albert Clayton and Graham Wilfred Morton, who escaped from the Waikeria prison ramp on Saturday afternoon, was made by "Constables Cummings, Johnson and McDonnell last night The escapees. evaded capture. The police were advised that a , car, answering the description of one stolen at Okoroire was observed re.-fueliing ata garage at Whakatane. The police gave, chase toward Taneatua. The cars, speed--ing at 60 miles an hour through Taneatua, missed the turn to Opotiki andpreceded toward Ruatoki. The police car, although it kept up; with the stolen car, was unable to catch it owing to dust obscuring vision. When the occupants of the first car realised they were running to a dead end off the 1 main road they abandoned the car in; the darkness and made toward the hills. The police guarded the river bridge and, vantage points all night and with the assistance of settlers combed the valley area to-day without finding a trace of the prisoners’ whereabouts. - • During Monday morning a five-seater ; Chrysler touring car, with the registered number 50-770; was stolen from Okorcire. It was the property of Mr.- F/ Goodwin. Shortly after thp theft of the car was reported to the police, the Chevrolet motor van, owned by the Cam- , bridge Electric Power Board, which had been stolen from Leamington in. the early hours of Sunday morning, was . ’ •found abandoned near Okoroire. It was believed that the escaped prisoners had stolen the van and the theory now is , that they have exchanged it for a morepowerful 'car. Both the escaped prisoners have con- ■' victions for breaking and entering and theft Morton is sft. Ulin. in height with fresh complexion, brown hair and blue eyes. Clayton is sft 9in. in height,’ with fresh complexion, dark brown hair and hazel eyes. He has a mole oh his’:., left cheek. m