Borstal Escapers Recaptured

Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 17

Borstal Escapers Recaptured

(New Zealand Press Association)

INVERCARGILL, May 2. Acting on the assumption there were no police in Arrowtown, two escaped inmates of the Invercargill Borstal spent three or four hours sightseeing in the town today before being apprehended by two constables from Queenstown about 4 p.m. The youths, Eardley George Lomey, aged 18, and Teddy John Howard, aged 18. escaped from a night class at the Southland Technical College about 8 p.m. on Monday. They were captured by Constables L. Daly and C. Calsh, of Queenstown, when, after having a sleep behind a building in Arrowtown, the youths walked out on to the street—straight into the arms of the law. A car was taken from an

unlocked garage at Myross Bush late on Monday night. The stolen car was recovered tonight in a damaged condition at Garston. Another car was taken from outside a house in Lumsden in the early hours of this morning, and was later recovered, out of petrol, at Arrowtown. Two youths, fitting the description of the escaped inmates, were seen in the car. This car evidently ran into a ditch near Arrowtown, but the youths were able to free it. It then ran out of petrol in the town. The two youths were brought to Lumsden tonight by the Queenstown police. They were delivered to a party of Invercargill police at Lumsden, and are spending tonight in the Invercargill central police station lockup.