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named Williams, who had supplied the furnishings. When last seen, Barnard had been growing a beard and wearing spectacles. Meanwhile Hepple, one of the detainees, had agreed to make a statement to the police. Information supplied by him led to the uncovering of yet another link in the chain, a house in Terrace Road, in the Johannesburg suburb of Mountain View. This place also yielded many incriminating documents, as well as some highly interesting fingerprints. The case for the State was building up, consolidating... 24
3 FLIGHT ON the evening following the Rivonia raid, all the occupants of the farm Lilliesleaf were detained in terms of the 90 days clause, one of the special powers entrusted by Parliament to the Minister of Justice to combat Communism in the country. Arthur Goldreich and his wife, the chief suspects, were detained in the police cells at Marshall Square, (Johannesburg's Scotland Yard). Also at Marshall Square were two other detainees, Moosa Moolla and Abdulla Jasset, both members of the Indian community. Shortly afterwards a fifth person was brought to the cells, Harold Wolpe, a lawyer by profession and partner of James Kantor, (one of the later accused in the Rivonia trial). When Wolpe (the same person who had left such a clear fingerprint on the tin at Lilliesleaf) learnt that the police had raided the farm, he realised that they would now be hot on his trail as well, and decided that best safety lay in flight. He had almost reached the border when he was arrested by the police. The names of two of the four men who occupied the cells at Marshall Square on that fateful night were destined to hit the headlines a month later, when news of their dramatic escape reverberated round the world. A dramatic escape indeed– but no more dramatic than the subsequent movements and future career of these two versatile gentlemen. In the early hours of the morning on Sunday, August 11th, Lieutenant van Wyk was where he deserved to be– in bed and sound asleep. Suddenly he was woken by the insistent shrilling of the telephone. In reply to his sleepy 'Hullo?' the voice of his colleague, Lieutenant Diederichs, crackled over the wire, bearing shattering news. Goldreich, Number One accused in the impending Rivonia trial, had escaped from custody and with him, Wolpe. Moolla and Jasset! At this stage of the investigation the implications of this escape were only too clear to the men in the Security Branch, if not to the police generally. All the evidence which had been examined and sifted so far, pointed to Goldreich as being one of the key figures in the pernicious Communist conspiracy to plunge the country into chaos and bloody revolution. But the contents of the Rivonia documents were not yet generally known, so that none but the Security men realised just how important Goldreich and Wolpe were. To everyone else they were simply detainees under the 90 days clause. Van Wyk immediately contacted Dirker and requested him to alert certain other Security men immediately. He himself hurried straight to Marshall Square, where he learnt the full story of the escape from the policeman on duty, Sergeant John Karpakis. It appeared that the four detainees had attacked and overpowered the policeman on duty at the cells, eighteen-year-old Constable Johan Greeff, and had made good their escape while he was unconscious. "Apparently this was the weapon they used," said Karpakis, producing a piece of iron and handing it to his superior for inspection. Van Wyk weighed the piece of pig-iron in his hand and examined it closely. It was only a few inches long and wieghed no more than a couple of ounces. Knock a man unconscious with that? Van Wyk doubted it; nor were his colleagues, to whom he showed the piece of iron, any more inclined to believe that it could be used to knock a person unconscious. 25
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Page 11 and 12: "Is it? It looks just like a church
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Page 15 and 16: Van Wyk's heart sank. Nobody at hom
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Page 27 and 28: Greeff did not drink as a rule, but
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