PRISONER ESCAPES
DAY AND NIGHT SEARCH By Telegraph -Press Association AUCKLAND, September 28. The police are conducting a search for John William Graves, who escaped from the Waikune prison camp on Sunday afternoon. He must have got away about half an hour after the warder made his periodic round at 2 o’clock.
Graves’s experience that night must have been an unenviable one, for about a foot of snow fell in the National Park district and there is practically no shelter for about four miles. Behind the house there is fairly dense bush and it seems likely that Graves would try to force his way through to get to the railway line. Snow fell all through Sunday night and there was a high wind, so that unless he was able to find shelter before nightfall he would spend the night in the bush. Day and night search parties are out, and all points are being watched for signs of the prisoner.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20535, 29 September 1936, Page 6
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