PRISONERS CAPTURED.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1921, Page 5

PRISONERS CAPTURED.

MET STRONGLY ARMED.

THE POLICE TOO QUICK.

By Telegraph.—Press Assoclailoa.

Oamaru, Last Night. Two escapees from the Borstal Institute, Invercargill, John Andrew McWhilham and Cecil Joffrey Turnbull, w«r©< recaptured at Oamaru on Saturday. Th©| runaways arrived on bicycles about sbqj o’clock on Saturday morning, and were; located at Cape Wansbrow, close to Oamaru, in the afternoon.

Three members of the Oamaru police, J Constables Vaughan, Drumgool andii Marshal, and Detectives Beer and Kelly, of Dunedin, proceeded to the scene. Coo-> < stables Drumgooi and Vaughan spotted,-' the escapees and bailed them up. Both, escapees were heavily armed with revoi-j vers and an ample supply of annnunK tion. Constable Drumgooi drew a re* volver before tho escapees had time draw their weapons and escape, and as resistance was futile, they The captured prisoners were sent. Dunedin by the second express under the escort of Detectives Beer and Kelly. It is alleged that the revolvers and some hundred rounds of ammunition in possession of the escapees were stolen l •from A. and W. McCarthy’s store, of Dunedin. McWhilliam and Turnbull ar© also alleged to have stolen five pairs of trousers, two coats and two vests from Bruce’s, of Dunedin. The bicycles were stolen from Balclutha. It is worthy of note that Constable Drumgooi is the constable who effected the capture o£ McWhilham about two months ogoi when he escaped from th© Oamaru gaok On that occasion the capture resulted! after a cross-country chase of six miles*