LEAP FOR LIBERTY.
'PRISONER JUMPS FROM TRAIN. A WELL-KNOWN CRIMINAL. A prisoner who was being es^ortad from New Plymouth to Hamilton yesterday morning made a daring and successful leap for liberty from the 2 am. train just after it had laft Te Koiti. The prisoner, whose name is Harcourt, also goes by a numbe* of aliases including Hammond and Hackett, and is well acquainted Jith this district He is Described. as an exceptionally clever criminal and ia wanted on several .barges of false pretences. Recently, he has been posing as a land seeker, and Bering valueless cheques in his . dealings with agents. On Sunda, ' logt he was reported to be i~ me J?o Pio district, and the local police hereon'his trail, but he escaped to Sranaki district and was eventually r taken by Constable Flanagan, of - Mokau. Harcourt is said to be well !«*«d witb the back country •* »w »•» «*■» t° £ backbloctß after escaping from
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 717, 31 October 1914, Page 5
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154LEAP FOR LIBERTY. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 717, 31 October 1914, Page 5
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