YOUTHS CAPTURED
ESCAPE FROM POLICE CUSTODY CHARGES OF THEFT [ Per Press Association.] TIMARU, Feb. 13. Acting on information received | from farmers at Seadown, police arrested three youths who broke gaol and escaped. They are charged with theft. The youths were Frank Dixon, aged 19, Garfield Smith, aged 17, and Claude Hill, aged 17. They appeared in the Timaru Court on charges of breaking and entering with theft and also unlawfully converting cars. They were remanded in custody but about nine o'clock at night, when the police visited the --’I, they found it empty. The three accused had forced their j way through an iron netting over a I space in the exercise yard and made good their escape.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 37, 14 February 1939, Page 9
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118YOUTHS CAPTURED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 37, 14 February 1939, Page 9
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