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PRISON ESCAPEE SURRENDER'S(Per Press Association— Copyright .) WELLINGTON, April 28. After eight days’ liberty, Eugene Charles Dominic McCarthy, aged 25 who escaped from Whisky Creek Prison Camp, National Park, gave himself up at Mount Crew-ford Gaol this afternoon. McCarthy was serving a sentence of three years, when he and two fellow prisoners made a bold and carefully planned escape. One, '.Vincent Barney Reardon, was re-captured two days later. The third prisoner, Basil Hodgson, aged 26, is still at large. Th e escapees Is mashed (.the 'Jock of the dormitory, threatened the warder, and then made off into jough country.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1933, Page 5
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100SHORT LIBERTY Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1933, Page 5
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