Escapees Caught Like Rabbits in Burrow
NIGHT UNDER HAYSTACK STERN CHASE BY POLICE Press Association PUKEKOHE, Today. The three youths who escaped from the Pukekohe police cells yesterday by forcing the bars from the window were recaptured this morning at Paerata. Yesterday afternoon and last night the police searched a wide area of country, and last evening it was reported that the prisoners were seen at Buckland. The police appeared hot on the trail, but they evaded capture under cover of darkness. The escapees were supposed to have been seen at Pukekohe railway station about 10 p.m., and there were grounds for the report, as at an early hour this morning they were seen at Cape Hill, near Paerata, where they slept under a hay-stack.
A few hours after midnight they followed the railway line to near Paerata, and were seen by the police. An exciting chase followed, but the police missed the trail again. Scrub and railway cuttings assisted the prisoners. They were observed to go into an eleagnus hedge on Mrs. King’s property on the Paerata Road, where they were discovered by Constable S. O’Donnell and two other searchers, huddled up like rabbits in a burrow. They were arrested and taken to the police station.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 907, 26 February 1930, Page 1
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