BOTH ESCAPEES CAPTURED

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1932, Page 7

BOTH ESCAPEES CAPTURED

CHASE IN WAIMANA DISTRICT

THEFT OF FOOD FROM A HOUSE.

STRUGGLE WITH CONSTABLES.

CLAYTON .CAUGHT AFTER RUN.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Whakatane, Last Night.

The police have captured both Arthur Albert Clayton, aged 20, and Graham Wilfred Morton, aged 21, who escaped from the Waikeria prison camp on Saturday afternoon. Morton was captured late last night and Clayton this afternoon. Their whereabouts yesterday were discovered by the fact that they bvoke into a roadman’s hut in the Waimana Gorge in the morning and into Kirk’s house in the same locality the same afternoon. At the latter place they secured meat and bread. .Police and civilians patrolled the roads in the vicinity, and at 10 o’clock last night observed the two men on the road making in the direction of Opotiki. . , ,4 Constable Johnsen surprised Morton, who hit the constable in the face with a billy, and in the ensuing struggle both went over a bank. The constable overpowered and handcuffed Morton. Morton was the leader of the pair. He is a motor driver and mechanic and has a knowledge of the district. Constable Breed grappled with Clayton, who wriggled away and regained the bush. He was captured this afternoon near Waimana after a long chase on foot. A settler noticed a stranger in the bush on his property and notified the police who were searching thereabouts. Immediately he was discovered Clayton ran through the Waimana village across the river and was captured by the police in an exhausted condition before regaining the main WhakataneOpotiki Road.