PRISONERS ESCAPE.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18804, 28 November 1932, Page 8

PRISONERS ESCAPE.

WAIKERIA INMATES. DISAPPEARED ON SATURDAY. Two inmates of the Borstal Institution at Waikeria, Arthur Albert Clayton, aged 20, and Graham Wilfred Morton, aged 21, escaped on Saturday afternoon. Some hours after their escape a light Chevcrolet motor-van, the property of the Cambridge Elec-tric-Power Board, was stolen at Leamington. The car bore the registered number LSDM. It is suspected that the van was stolen by the escaped prisoners, especially as Morton is known to be an experienced driver. Morion on July i. in Auckland was sentenced to two years’ detention at the Borstal Institution on charges of forging, uttering and theft. He is sft. I | Ain. in height, with fresh complexion. brown hair and bine eyes. Clayton was sentenced in Wellington on March \ to three years’ detention on three charges of breaking and entering and theft. He is sft. Din. in height, with fresh complexion, dark brown hair and hazel eyes, lie has a mole on Ids left cheek. The lorry Hie men are suspected of commandeering, was lound abandoned at Okoroirc last night. A fivesealer tourer Chrysler car, the properly of Mr F. Goodwin, of Okoroirc, is reported missing by Hie Pularur.i police. The ear. registered number 50,770, is of a greenish grey colour.