NO SUCCESS YET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1940, Page 6

NO SUCCESS YET

HUNT FOR ESCAPED CRIMINALS SOME THEFTS IN PARNELL. INJURED WARDER SERIOUSLY ILL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 2. No one has reported having seen any of the four criminals who escaped from Auckland Prison on Tuesday night after gravely injuring one warder and injuring two others, but the circumstances surrounding the attempted theft of a x motor-car from the grounds of a house in Parnell and the theft of a tomahawk, a raincoat and a cardigan from another house in the same street suggest that the four fugitives have tried to find some form of transport and civilian clothes to wear. Police motor and foot patrols and search parties combed all parts of the city today. Every available detective and constable is being pressed into service. Principal roads and bridges are being watched, and all motor-cars are being stopped for examination. Auckland Hospital authorities reported late tonight that Joseph Graydon Crawford, aged 62, the warder who suffered severe head injuries and lacerations while struggling with his assailants. was seriously ill. The two other warders, Joseph Wenzl Scholium, aged 32, and Arthur Burgess, aged 43, who had slight concussion and scalp wounds, were said to be in a fairly satisfactory condition. FULL INQUIRY PROMISED BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. A statement that the police had the matter in hand was made by the Minister in Charge of Prisons Department, Dr. McMillan, yesterday in connection with the jail-break at Auckland. Dr. McMillan, when asked to comment upon the escape of the four missing men, said that till a full inquiry into the circumstances had been held, it was.not proposed to make a statement on the case.