POWELKA ESCAPES AGAIN

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10405, 28 August 1911, Page 5

POWELKA ESCAPES AGAIN

FORCES THE GRATING OF HIS CELL.

AND GETS CLEAN AWAY,

A FRUITLESS SEARCH.

Uy Telegraph—Press Association.

- "WJiiLUNiGTON", Last Night. Joseph- Pbwelka, a notorious man, jribo ■tfas •senibenoed' to twenty-one .yeans' imprisonment for burglary and arson in.' Pailimerston and district, made a isecond Kssoape from the Wei' lingtom Terrace Gaol early this morning, some timebetween four and six .p'clock. v Poiwelka bodily foroad a ■small grating out oi.Ms oell. The grating yard, :and, favoured •by A!he> darkness,' the prisoner got tsfcean ; «way, :

Later, a milkman, reported 'having feean a man in -white running near the Kelbitanepower-house towards tthe Botanical Gardens.' ' Sixty odd' police and ■wanxLers are mow searching in aH direction®. The Botanical Gardens were thor■faughJy explored,. without result. > A anaau reports -having seen a pert»n- .corresponding in description to .iPowelka-totirying along & Hutt bye-; "Bitsreet

'/bush'. ' It is (abated that the grating aio rt PowelbaV oeU was screwed on from N£ "the outside.' - ' \ "~ The screwis 'had been xeonovied, and T /Tbbe. to&les filled with putty, so that •all Powelka 1 tad to do was to force "the grating (through-at a coniveniani iiomemt.

1 PoweE&a made (has first ©scape from 'the Terrace Gaol about ten days ago. He iwlas -then, at liberty for only a short -time, being captured under a JbuUding adjoinanig ithe gaol yard. With Powelkate exploits eighteen months ago, the public is still familiar. A*-ear creating a great scare din the Manaawtu. distract, he >wara eap- \ . ffcured in a isbed ait Ashhurst. H it betibrue that the fugitive has made for <bhe "Wairaui MIH ihe idhanoe re-capturing him for isome .days mU be exceedingly (remote. The ooun*ry ia very Tough at Wainxii. There -obi a> track over.ithe hills, and it is possible that he maay make overland ■to- jbhe Wairarapa, and around ithe lake to the laWtdnboriough counitoy.

A PaJmerabom telegram Bays: — ' ("PoweJka's escape has caused oon- > «iderable interest,'here. Hi» wife " and child are <sinll residing in (the 'tiasrtriot, end ait is ifhoughb he wall "make for Saere."^ .The news of Powelfia'a escape was Hjetegrapbedi .to the various police ■< -officers in the Wairarapa yesbanday, and'a vigilant look-out was kept for the fugitive.