FEIGNED ILLNESS
PRISONER’S TRICK POLICE ESCORT ELUDED ON CHARGE OF ABDUCTION (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) WHAKATANE, Sunday Pleading that he was ill, Arthur Mitchell Wray, aged 25, on remand from Rotorua to Whakatane on a charge of abduction, escaped from his police escort when the car was stopped on the main Whaxatane-Rotorua highway at about noon on Friday. In spite of an intensive search by police from Whakatane, Taneatua and Rotorua, under the direction of Inspector Carroll and Detective-Sergeant White, he is still at large. Wray was arrested at Taupo and appeared before justices at Rotorua on Friday morning. He left for
Whakatane under the escort of Constable Riddell, and when about six miles from Te Teko, near the turnoff to Fenton’s Mill, the prisoner complained that he was ill. The escort stopped the car and alighted with the prisoner, who immediately dived into the thick scrub and tea-tree which borders the road at this place.
The police search was commenced immediately, and has continued ever since.
Th prisoner is about sft llin in height, of slim build and dark complexion. At the time of his escape he was wearing a double-breasted blue suit.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21207, 2 September 1940, Page 9
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194FEIGNED ILLNESS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21207, 2 September 1940, Page 9
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