A PRISONER RECAPTURED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2308, 16 November 1914, Page 8

A PRISONER RECAPTURED

GOOD WORK BY POLICE. (By Tplegmph—Press Association.) Hamilton, November li. The-prisoner Hackett, who jumped from a train at.Te Kuiti on October 30, while being conveyed from New Plymouth to Hamilton, where he was to be charged.oh. aperies, of counts of false pretences, was captured by the Eotorua police at Atiamuri, some miles from .Rotorua, yesterday. The police did excellent work -in tracing the man from Otorohanga, right through the back country ,to Taupo, with which country Hackett is thoroughly familiar. Yesterday he boarded the Taupo Totara Timber Company's private l train at Mokai, on the Putaruru line, but instead of going right through, he jumped off at the bridge over the Waikato River and made towards Atiamuri. Here the Rotorua police, who were on the look-out, ■picked up the trail, and arrested him, Hackett showed no sighs of having suffered privations, and from reports received by the police it is probable that the list of charges will be considerably increased as the result of his dash for freedom. ;