FOUR ESCAPEES
FROM BORSTAL INSTITUTE
(By Telegraph—Press Association).
INVERCARGILL, March 20,
Four young men, all recent arrivals, escaped from the Borstal Institution this afternoon. They were members of a party of 23 working on the rifle range wall of Otatara, and they simply left their work and darted acn ss to the bush which surrounds many of the residences at Otatara.
Tim police and Borstal officers are engaged in a search for them. ONE RECAPTURED.
The Borstal escapees are Philip Daniel Tranor, Frederick William 'Pvler, John Harold Halliday, and Reginald Athol Hobson. It was reported this evening that Tvler had been recaptured.
An official caught two of the lads, but one managed to struggle free, leaving the other in the hands of the official.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1930, Page 6
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