WERAROA ESCAPEES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2591, 9 June 1923, Page 3

WERAROA ESCAPEES.

VICTOR KIRNER. AGAIN AT LARGE.

The lengthy list of escapees from the Weraroa Training Farm was added to yesterday when two lads, Victor Kirner, and a boy named Seoringe, secured their freedom. Kirner, it will he remembered, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North on May 31, to three charges of breaking, entering and theft in concert with another escapee, and was sent to Wellington for sentence by the Supreme Court, By order of Mr Justice Chapman lie was re-committed on Wednesday to the Weraroa Farm, to he placed after his release on three years’ probation. He thus did not remain in the institution on this occasion for more than a few hours. Previous to his lapse at Palmerston North, Kirner had been convicted at Christchurch on four charges of breaking and entering. Seoringe was committed to the farm in respect to a series of charges of breaking, entering and theft. Neither of the lads had been arrested up to the time of going lo press. Commenting on the lads’ escape, a Press Association message from Levin, says:—“There is a strong feeling locally that such hoys should not he sent to Weraroa, which has no facilities for incarceration, hut is educational in character.”