DARING ESCAPE.
Three Prisoners Dash from Camp. WARDER THREATENED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 24. In a dash for liberty that had, apparently, been carefully planned, three prisoners escaped from Waikune sub-prison camp, sixteen miles south of Turangi, on Friday morning. The escapees were: —Eugene Charles Dominic M’Carthy, aged twenty-five, serving a sentence of three years; Basil Hodgson, aged twenty-six, serving a sentence of two years, and Vincent Barney Reardon, aged thirty, serving a sentence of two years. The three men reported sick, ard with the warder in charge were the only occupants of the camp on Ff:-. day morning. Hodgson and Reardon, who occupied the same dormitory, §mashed open a locked door with a camp stool and were joined in the open by M’Carthy, who escaped from his cell by climbing through a window.
The three men armed themselv.s with sticks and threatened the warder in charge with violence if he attempted to stop them. The men then headed down the disused National Park-Taupo Road.
An intensive search has been organised, and it was reported late yesterday afternoon that one prisoner had been captured at ITihitahi, between Waiouru and Taihape.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 744, 24 April 1933, Page 8
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191DARING ESCAPE. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 744, 24 April 1933, Page 8
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