Escape and Capture.
-•»= I A BAD RECORD. A prisoner named Bertranct;! Thomas Turner escaped from the! hard labour pang at work near the gaol at New Plymouth on Tuesday, but was recaptured after a desperate struggle by Warders Syrnp and Downs. Turner, who is 80 years of age is a notoriously bad character, He was sentenced in 1896, at Auokv land, to aix years for false pretences,' Justice Connolly then remarking tbafM; he should never be out of gaol. He n was refractory in Auckland, and was .ent here. He had just finished eight days' solitary confinement. He has been twelve years in the colony, and his longest period oat of gaol was three months.
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Manawatu Herald, 5 January 1899, Page 2
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115Escape and Capture. Manawatu Herald, 5 January 1899, Page 2
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