WAIKUNE ESCAPEE
-Press Associatjon.)
Capture Made at Otaki
(By Tekgrapli-
WANGANUI, March 10. An eseape from the Waikune ■Drison Camp was made to-day by WiUiam Joseph Gee, a prisoner who was actjng as cook for the occupants of tbe camp. He is a half-caste Chinese and was senteneed at Wellington in September last to a total period of eight years' imprisonment on four charges, Includlng burglary, house-breaking apd theft from a dwelling. Gee was later caught at Otaki by a eommercial traveller and lodged in thq cel]s at the police gtation, after making ap attempt to eseape from his cap- |
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 48, 12 March 1937, Page 4
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