Prisoners Captured.
Two of the three prisoners who escaped from the Dungree plantation works recently were secured, between eight and nine o’clock on Tuesday night. They are Henry Smith and John O’Keefe—both under sentence for burglary—who . broke bounds on Friday Evening last. They surrendered themselves to Sergeant-Major Mason and Constable Cowper, whom they met a few yards from Blenheim police station, which they stated they were looking for. Since'Friday night the escapees had been wandering about the Vernon hills, a few- miles from the prison camp. They xficl not see a soul, and subsisted on two. eels. Both were in a famished and exhausted condition. Finlay, who escaped on Saturday, the gill inst., is still at large.
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Manawatu Herald, 21 July 1904, Page 3
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117Prisoners Captured. Manawatu Herald, 21 July 1904, Page 3
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