THE PRISONER LEWIS.
>' AT OIIAKIU. .lolui Ijcwis, who escaped ' • ■ . ' .ors working gang at Mount Ci -i ii Thursday afternoon, was, reca, :-i mi Saturday at Ohariu, about ten tin; irom WclliiigUm. Jle wns round in an empty house, standing in a lonely situation about a. mile from the roadway. Having satisliecl themselves that Jyewis was in the house. Doted ives h'l'iiip, Hanimoiid, and Andrews made ;i search of the. place, and found Lewis hidden in a cupboard in an up. stairs room. Ho .submitted quietly to arrest. By some means ho had possessed himself of a suit of civilian clothes and a pair of boots. He had nlso managed to obtain a razor, and with it to remove : beard of several days' growth. When arrested ho had a little, money in his pockete, and also a fulso nioiis'lache. lie wns still wearing his prison dollies under his civilian suit. It appears (hat ho went by tramcar to Island Hay, and walked to Ohariu, inlending to strike (he railroad and so mil of tho -lunger zone, lie had tagged food from howe to house, bill ho iidniitled that he had had a somewhat: inicumforljiblo time sleeping out in the bad weather.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1426, 29 April 1912, Page 4
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200THE PRISONER LEWIS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1426, 29 April 1912, Page 4
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