ESCAPED PRISONER
SEARCH BY POLICE PARTIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, March 13. Police parties have been unsuccessfully scouring the hills north of Napier in an effort to recapture the escaped prisoner, Raymond Stanley Hill, aged 19, who made a spectacular leap from an express train near Taupiri late yesterday afternoon when, with other prisoners, he was being transferred from Auckland jail to Waikeria Borstal Institute at Te Awamutu. Hill was scon near Taupo laic last night, presumably having’ travelled there in a motor car which he is believed to have converted from outside the Ngaruawahia bowling green last evening. From Taupo he apparently headed south toward Hastings, where his home is, for he was stopped by Ihe appearance, near Bayview, eight miles north of Napier, of a police party in the early hours of this morning. The party is reported to have closed on him but he retained his liberty by diving into thick bush. Since then, strong police parties have searched the rough hill country in the district where he was last seen, and the Hastings police have also maintained a vigilant watch in their area.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 March 1940, Page 2
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