Big Manhunt For Escaped Prisoners

Chronicle (Levin), 4 October 1948, Page 3

Big Manhunt For Escaped Prisoners

AUCKLAND, Oct. 3. The search for the two prisoners who escaped from the Auckland prison 'quarry on * Thursday afternoon, developed today into the greatest manhunt in the area' since before the war. Police action fpllowe.d the disaixpearanee of, the 22ft launclx Kaye R. from Hobson" Bay and its, location near the moutli of the Wade River, near Whangaparaoa Peninsula, after an air search this moruing. It contained a prison shirt and food believed to have been takou in a raid on a cabaret at 'Milford, late on Bat'urday night. A party of 21 men, police, deteetive and warders from the Auckland prison, conducted the search for the two men — James Daniel Pease, aged 28, and Seaton Young, aged' 23— ;ovei' a wide area of .the Whangaparaoa Peninsula. The search . jwAs coptinuijig at a late hour t.onight. , , • : •' The lavmph Kaye p, ■ o wned by Mr. R. D. Rhodes, of Newmarket, was missing fxrom its moorings in Hobson. Bay on Saturday. evening. . Inquiries sliowed •that it ,had been seen ofi; Milford about 4.30 p.m. Earlier Alf. Rhodes arranged for Ihe charter pf ^n Auckland Aero .Ciyjx &i/riUVCi to j yriariip a search and after searehing the Tamaki area this morning, the aitcraft was turned north up the East Coast bays. Finally the launph-was seen aground at the mouth of t,he .Wade River., The police search followed-.