ESCAPEES RECAPTURED

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19017, 7 August 1933, Page 2

ESCAPEES RECAPTURED

LEAPED FROM A TRAIN.

AT LIBERTY ALL DAY.

MERCER, Monday,

William Henry Charles McKay, jged 29, a prisoner, who leaped from a moving train at Mercer, was at large for 14 hours before being recaptured. The train stops at Mercer for one minute, and Just as it was moving out of the station McKay made a lightning dash from his seat, llung open the carriage door, slammed it behind' him, and leaped to the ground. So quick was his movement that before the nearest warder could reopen the door and reach the platform he was weil

away from the train. The speed of the express made it dangerous for anyone to Jump off In pursuit, and it was not until the train reached Pukekohe 25 minutes later

that the alarm could be given. A search was made all day. About G p.m., a man from a relief camp Just outside Mercer, brought news that a stranger had called at the camp shortly before and asked for a meal, which had been given him. TJhe men at the camp had heard over the wireless of McKay’s escape, and the stranger’s description coincided with the description broadcast. The police went to the camp, but the man had left. They wen called at tlie Mangatawhiri Beach relief camp, a mile from Mercer. There, shortly be- ' fore 8 p.m., they found McKay seated quietly and talking to the men. He was rearrestcd. FLIGHT FROM PRISON CAMP. " JUST A WALK-AWAY.” TAUMARUNUI, Sunday. Warders stationed near the entrance lo the Ohakune railway tunnel recaptured yesterday, the prisoner, Thomas Ueorgc Flanagan, aged 23, who had broken away from supervision at the 1 Waikune prison camp on Thursday. *• The escape was really just a walkaway," a prison official said to-daf. ’• Flanagan was working on road construction some distance away from other prisoners or offloials, but his escape was soon noticed.”