PRISON ESCAPEES ARRESTED

Chronicle (Levin), 5 June 1947, Page 7

PRISON ESCAPEES ARRESTED

At about 3.30 o'clock on Tuesda; afternoon three men, ' who had beei serving prison senteftces at Moun jCrawford prison in Wellington, escapec from a working party." Immediatel, the incident was reported an - intens police hunt began. The meh escape. in prison garb and it was realised tha' they wrnuld not waste any time ex changing the regiilation white trousers grey.coats and white caps for some thing a little less consplcuouh. At 7.18 o'clock yesterday mornin Sergeant G. Innes and Constable J. \\ Winnard arrested two of the escape;1 prisoners in Palmerston North. Thet^ were Jesse le Roy Hines, a seaman born in 1915, a native of America, anl -Tohn Andrew Hislop, a labourer anl presser, aged 24 years, a native of New Zealand. Later yesterday morning they appeared before Messrs. W. II. Brown and H. Greenwood, J.P.'s, in the Magistrate's C'ourt to answer a eharge of having converted to their own use a car, valued at £140, the property of Robert George Gallop. They were nol wearing prison garb but civilian elothes. Senior-Sergeant B. Audley, asking for a remand in custody, explained the circumstanccs leading to the arrest oi the wanted men in Palmerston North. Just after seven o'clock the Pal merston North police reeeived a tele phone call from a man who stated that there were two men at a petrol station in Kangitikei Street who were suspiciously like the broadcast deseriptiou - of the e'scapees. Sergeant G. Inncs,anfl Constable J. Winnard proceeded to the scene in the police patrol car, and ffected a smart arrest. Both prisoners werb remanded to Wellington.