CAPTURED !

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 450, 11 February 1909, Page 2

CAPTURED !

Archie M’Neil Arrested.

Sub-Inspector O’Donovan received a telegram from the Wanganui police yesterday afternoon, stating that M’Neil, the elusEe escaped convict, had been arrested there yesterday morning.

HIS RECENT MOVEMENTS

Two officers from the Wellington prison returned to Wellington on Tuesday after a fruitless search for the prisoner. They tried to intercept M’Neil at the Turakina river, but were too late, as he had passed along 48 hours earlier, mounted on a big bay horse. He was then wearing riding breeches and gaiters of a conspicuous pattern. Next he was heard of as having stayed with Mr Simpson, of Heaton Park, on the coast, about six miles from Turakiua. To Mr Simpson, McNeil described himself as a surveyor, and he assumed the airs of a professional man.

Still going north, M’Neil next visited Mr D. Mclntosh, whose place is seven miles this side of Wanganui. He arrived apparently very tired, and his mount was done up. “You appear tc have come a long way?” Mr Mclntosh observed.

“From Feilding,” M’Neil replied- “I’m |a horse-dealer,” he added later on, “and with that horse there I won the high jump at the show. Yes, it’s a long ride here from Feilding, What is it; fifty miles?” That night M’Neil was the guest of Mr Mclntosh, alter supper he was given a good bed. He rose early next morning at three o’clock, Mr Mclntosh believes ; but before he went he skimmed all the cream off the dishes.

A farmer at Feilding, not knowing anything about M’Neil’s antecedents, complained to the police that a man had borrowed a horse and a pair, of leggings. He said he was a surveyor, and would return them shortly. He had not been seen by the farmer up to the time the loss was reported.