THE ESCAPED PRISONER.
CAPTURED NEAR DRURY.
United Press Association—Copyright. AUCKLAND, May 19. Inspector Cullen received a wire this evening from Constable Flanagan, of Hunua, stating that the convict William Smith, who made a sensational escape by leaping from the Rotorua express last Friday, had been recaptured hear Drury this afternoon by Warder Richards and a civilian named Frank Ottway. Smith was surprised by the warder and civilians as lie emerged from scrub on to the Hunua road about <3O yards ahead of them, and the pursuers being on horseback, they easily succeeded in running him down. He was, liowevr, not captured without a struggle, and Warder Richards had to draw his revolver before Smith would submit to he handcuffed. (Smith states that when lie jumped from the train be fell into some briar bushes, which broke bis fall. He said he had been helped by settlers, who had supplied him with food. Smith was brought to Auckland to-night and lodged in Mt. Eden goal. .
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2195, 20 May 1908, Page 3
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164THE ESCAPED PRISONER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2195, 20 May 1908, Page 3
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