ESCAPED PRISONERS
WIDELY EXTENDED SEARCH IN VICTORIA. By Telegraph—Press Association -Copyright. MELBOURNE, May 10. Armed police and warders have been searching the bush and roads round Beechworth since early yesterday for George Brannon and Raymond Cullen, indeterminate sentence prisoners, who disappeared while working with 14 other reformatory men clearing land near a pine plantation a few miles from Beechworth. The only food the men had had was bread and jam which they were eating at lunch yesterday. The men were honour prisoners. They were reported to have been seen by a prison guard near Springhurst this afternoon and it was stated that they were heading for Wangaratta. All bridges on the route are closely guarded by armed police. No thefts of food or clothing are reported. It is thought that the men may be driven by hunger to surrender.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1939, Page 7
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139ESCAPED PRISONERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1939, Page 7
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