HIDE AND SEEK

Evening Star, Issue 23697, 3 October 1940, Page 8

HIDE AND SEEK

PRISONERS STILL AT LARGE GAOL CLOTHES ABANDONED [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 3. The four prisoners who escaped on Tuesday evening are still at large. Apparently they played hide-and-seek with tho police throughout yesterday in the district between the Shore road, Uemuera, and Hobson Bay, on the eastern waterfront. Three pairs of prison trousers and two pairs of prison socks were found early this morning, on a cliff near the residential property of Mr J. Martin Wilson. 17 acres in extent, off the Shore road. The police received a report that a light motor car was stolen during the night from a garage on a property 400yds from Wilson's residence. The search in this area has intensified, and tlie citizens are taking the keenest interest in the operations. It is now believed that on Tuesday night the escapees had the key of the main door, which was on the bunch of keys in the possession of one of the warders, who was knocked unconscious; also that tho key jammed in the lock, and the prisoners then went to another door of which they had the key. It is believed that they broke the stout padlocked chain which held the latter door by swinging their combined weight on it.