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MT. EDEN ESCAPEES FOUND WALKING EPSOM STREETS IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES
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Auckland, Friday. The two prisoners, Harris O'Neill, aged 40, and George Hayward, aged 25, who escaped from the bakehouse at Mount Eden gaol early on Monday morning, were- re-captured this morning in ia street at Epsom. At 9.40 o'clock a milkman recognised the two men, who were walking separately on different sides of the road, and he telephoned the police. A sergeant and constable hurried to the street in a car, drew up betweeu .the men, and the sergeant seized one and the constable the other Both denied their identity, and gave other names, but the sergeant told them he- had no douM as to who they were. The men were taken to the Police Court and remanded on ch'arges of escaping from lawful custoiy. When arrested the men were sauntering along in the sun. Both wore blue overcoats and other nonprison clothes. One bad boots several sizes too large for him. They appeared tired, and cvidently had been rnuch exposed to the weather since their escape.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 638, 16 September 1933, Page 5
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