EDGECUMBE-TE TEKO MYSTERY NEAR SOLUTION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 96, 17 September 1948, Page 5

EDGECUMBE-TE TEKO MYSTERY NEAR SOLUTION

One Fugitive Is Still In Bush When Ben Richard Kora appears in Court again this morning to answer a charge of theft from the Onepu dwelling on which he was remanded earlier this week, he will probably have to face further charges in con.nection with the week-end’s happenings around Edgecumbe and Te Teko. Andy Hika, picked up at Opotiki < on a bicycle unlawfully taken from ’Te Teko on Sunday, will also be appearing. Hika was convicted at Opotiki on Wednesday and given a „gaol sentence for stealing the cycle. It now seems almost certain that the man the police are still hunting in the rough country around Onepu is George Duncan, the Opotiki gaol escapee. He was still at large yesterday, 7 and must be getting pretty hungry by now, because the Police have all roads out blocked. It was probably he who raided TMr J. H. Moody’s place at Onepu •on Wednesday night and apparently helped himself to some cream from the shed. Difficulty has been for the search- . ers to get anything but a rough indication of the whereabouts of the : fugitive, who is evidently concealing himself in the bush in the day-* 'time and coming out to forage for :food at night. However, the Police ■ can afford to be patient. They hold ■ all the winning cards.