SIX HOURS' FREEDOM
SHORT DASH FQR LIBERTY THREE MEft FLEE FROM BORSTAL RECAPTURED IN EVENING Per Press Association INVERCARGILL, November 31. A determined bid for liberty was made at about 2 p.m. on Saturday by throe youthful inmates of the Borstal Institution. They had been working with a gang in charge of a warder and disappeared into undergrowth. Their movements were traced northward until they reached Makarewa river. At one stage the escapees entered a dwelling house and, it is alleged, purloined q quantity of food and a carving knife with which one was found armed when they were recaptured. Early in the evening th.e youths were sighted by Constable Fraser and n party of warders near the river bank. The constable gave chase ana drove one youth into the water where he was taken in charge by tho warders. The others then set off off up the bank, but were 600 n intercepted by Constable Fraser, who had made a short-cut across high ground. The escapees were returned to the Borstal Institute after about six hours of freedom,
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12610, 22 November 1926, Page 6
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179SIX HOURS' FREEDOM New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12610, 22 November 1926, Page 6
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