AMONGST THE "TALL TIMBER"
FIVE YEARS A WANDERER. By TelcKrarh-Preas Association. , , . Taihape, July.B. ~ An unkempt, primeval-looking man, Saving seveual years' growth of hair on lis fac» and head, was run to earth in the back country yesterday. He had subsisted on whatever came his way for four or five years, and has evaded tho police and others, rupning Jlko a deer and jumping like a dog. Eventually, he wns ruu down by a horseman, who had lain in wait on Cottrcll's Oruamatua Station. The name he gavo was Harry Willis, aged fifty. Ho appeared sturdy and' muscular, and had wandered the hill country between Taihapo and Napier for upwards of four years.
At tho Taihape Magistrate's Court ho pleaded not guilty to a charge of being an ialo and disorderly person. Ho refused to_ give evidence, or to make an explanation, saying "I keep everything to myself." Ho wits, sentenced to three montiis imprisonment in the Wellington Gaol.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 244, 9 July 1920, Page 7
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158AMONGST THE "TALL TIMBER" Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 244, 9 July 1920, Page 7
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