NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 December 1917, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

♦ ' GERMAN PRISONERS. ESCAPE FROM MOTUIHI ISLAND. WELLINGTON, Dec. 14 The Minister for Defence makes the following announcement: "Ten prisoners of war, including two naval officers, escaped from Motuihi in a launch yesterday evening. "It is not known in what direction they have gone. "The Press is informed by the Minister for Defence that among those wlio escaped from Motuihi is von Luckner, commander of the raider See Adlcr, captured a few months ago in the Pacific. The escapees managed to get away in the launch of the military commandant. ' "Steps have been taken to search for them 'and the public are invited to be on the watch and report at once to the police any information which may aid in the discovery of the escapees. THE ALDINGTON MURDER. CHRISTCHURCH; Dec. 14 The adjourned .nq-u-eit Into the death of Donald Lewis Oarrick, aged three years, who was found dead with his head battered, early last Saturday morning, at Adding.on, was continued to-day. Sergt Wohlmann, who conducted the case for t>he po'.n?, said that Winifred Carrick, mother of the deceased, who is now on remand, charged with its wilful murder, had declined to attend the inquiry, as had also her solicitors.

Evidence was given that'the child was asleep in its bed at 9 p.m. on Friday.

The Coroner returned a verdict that the cause of death was laceration of the brain, the result of a wound inflicted by some person or persons. There was no evidence to show who such person or persons were.