One Of Escaped Prisoners Caught

Chronicle (Levin), 30 August 1949, Page 5

One Of Escaped Prisoners Caught

AUCKLAND, August 29. After being at lilierty for three days, oue of the two prisoners who escaped from the Auckland prison last Friday, wa£ recaptured by the police on the eastern slopes of Mt. F.den this after noon. He Was Dawsoii Gus King, a tLree-quarter easte Maori, aged 26. who is serving a sentenee of two years ' imprisonment for shop breaking. He was takeh to the Centfal police station and later returned to prison. Following thefts in the distriet neai Mountain Road during the weekend: the police concentrated their search to- - day on the area, npar the gaol and mountain slopes. Shortly after 2.4-5 o.m. Detective Yincent and Oonstable Hughes were searching on the eastel'n side of the road leading to the summit of Mt.' Eden, when they saW King lying in a ditch on the slopes. He was wear ing grey trousers, sports coat and goloshes and was lving down with two coats over him and with gras^. ,alid brambles over his imdy. He did not resist wheii he was nrrested aiid apiiofir ed tn be suffering from exposurei The other prison er-, Thomas Wi!lian. ^Tan^es, aged 27, is though t to luivp escaped from Ihe ci'tv an'd a closc watch was kept today on the mfiin roads from Auckland. Altogether over 40 detectivefi and police and a party o' wardens from the gaol, were searching for the . prisoners today.