PRISONERS RE-TAKEN

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19051, 15 September 1933, Page 7

PRISONERS RE-TAKEN

.WALKING IN EPSOM STREET RECOGNISED BY MILKMAN. FATIGUED AND WEATHER BEATEN. (By TelejrrapD- —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Friday. The two prisoners, Harrl3 O’Neill, aged 40, and George Hayward, aged 25, who escaped from the bakehouse at Mount Eden gaol early on Monday morning, were recaptured this morning In a street at fcpsom. At 9.40 o’clock a milkman recognised the two men, who were walking separately on different sides of the road, and he telephoned the police. A sergeant and constable hurried to the street in a car, drew up between the men, and the sergeant seized one and the 'constable the other. Both denied their identity, and gave other names, but the sergeant told them he had no doubt as to who they were. The men were taken to the Police Court and remanded on charges of escaping from lawful custody. When arrested the men were sauntering along In the sun. Both wore blue over coats and other nonprlson clothes. One had boots ieveral sizes too large for him. They appeared tired, and evidently had been much exposed to the weather since their escape.