PRISON CAMP
ESCAPE OF TWO INMATES
By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, June 15.
Two prisoners escaped from the Hautu Prison Camp near Tokaanu, at dusk. Although a widespread search was made no trace of them had been reported at a late hour. The men are John Booth Prohl (26) and Richard de Thierry (23), a Maori. They left the camp about 5.30 after the men’s tea had been served. Their disappearance was discovered 10 minutes later. Escape was comparatively easy as under camp conditions surveillance is necessarily restricted. The two men had vanished into the scrub country before anything in the nature of a search could be organised.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20445, 16 June 1936, Page 10
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107PRISON CAMP Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20445, 16 June 1936, Page 10
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