HOT ON TRAIL
ESCAPED PRISONERS SEARCH IN WAITAKERES POLICE USE RADIO CARS (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 6. Three messages received from different parts of the Waitakere district this morning started a day-long energetic police drive in and around the hundreds of acres of dense bush and scrub to find the four prisoners who escaped from Auckland prison last Tuesday night, and changed the focus of the search from the SilverdaleAlbany sector, where it had been concentrated since a small Auckland car was found abandoned there on Friday morning. Police cars with radio receivers shuttled to and fro over roads leading in all directions —probably the first occasion in New Zealand when the police had used radio to help them in work of this kind. At stated periods to-day one of the Auckland broadcasting stations sent brief messages of instruction to the patrolling cars equipped with receivers, an innovation which greatly helped the organising officers to co-ordinate their efforts and save valuable time.
At a late hour it is understood that the police are hot on the trail.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24422, 7 October 1940, Page 8
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179HOT ON TRAIL Otago Daily Times, Issue 24422, 7 October 1940, Page 8
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