THREE ESCAPEES
FROM WAIKUNK PRISON CAMP
WARDER THREATENED BY MEN
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AUCKLAND, April 23
? Three prisoners escaped from the ]Waikhue' sub-prison camp,’ - 16 miles '•couth of Tu.rn.ngj, at 9 o'clock on Friday morning. The escapees tare: Eugene Charles Dominie McCarthy, aged fis, serving a' sentence of three years ; Basil Hodgson, aged 26, serving a sentence of two years; Vincent Harney Reardon, aged 30 ' serving a sentence •of two' years.
The three men reported sick, and with the . warder in charge they wero ; ! th'e only occupants of the r 'nip on •Friday- morning. The escape had a'p-. iparentfy been • carefully planned. Hodgson and Reardon."occupying the same • dormitory, smashed open a locked - ; d°6i' ,wi'tF ’a' 'camp ' '.stool, rod were ' joined in the ; opfrn by MeOarthyy-whd escaped ,fiAm ’h'i'V ce'f by'-clifubfhg through' the KviftdlHv.' 1 ’'' '■ -•: •'
The thre P men armed-TTientselves with .sticks, .and' threatened -the warder in idiargd"' with violence 'Af lur 'attempted to 'stbp ''tli'cm. "The' iheh ’then 'headed-: down -dhe.^fjsilked "Xat-idnii 1 parklTstvipo voV<l.. a 'i\.n ; intensive '"’seiu'c'.i mnst-TiCeti organised, unit HvV whkKikpT'tcd Hat e thi.g aHornpap .that, one j»vi«oiKr, whoso name is not' wa s recaptured at H ihetaki, between Waiouni and Ta-i^s§p«*Ay w ■ " ••■AtfAVv Yiilini i'~t -tni»r-:
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1933, Page 6
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202THREE ESCAPEES Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1933, Page 6
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