IN CUSTODY AGAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1940, Page 6

IN CUSTODY AGAIN

THREE OF THE ESCAPED PRISONERS FOUND SLEEPING UNDER PINE TREE. FOURTH MAN LEFT ILL IN AUCKLAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association J AUCKLAND, This Day. Three of the four prisoners who escaped from Mt Eden Gaol, Auckland on Tuesday night, were recaptured early this morning, sleeping under a large tree in a pine plantation, about 200 yards from the Titirangi Hotel, on the hills west of Auckland. An intensive search had been made of this area by a large cordon of police since Saturday night, when it became known that three of the escapees had travelled in that direction. As dawn was breaking this morning, Constable McTavish heard snoring near the Titirangi Road. Getting through a fence, he came on an open patch and saw the three prisoners sleeping under a pine tree. When Constable McTavish called to them, they showed no disposition to resist, and said they would'come quietly. Constables Saunders and Dwan came on the scene and assisted to handcuff Smith, Silva and OTlehir. These men said they left Watson, who was suffering from a chest complaint, at Newmarket on Tuesday evening, soon after escaping. Each of the men in a separate car, arrived at the Central Police Station at 7.30 a.m.