DRAMATIC AFFAIR.
ESCAPED PRISONER SHOOTS
HIMSELF,
Ashburton Yesterdav
The prisoner, Herbert Chapman, who jumped from an express train near Ashburton on Tuesday week, •was recaptured at Dromore, six miles from the point where he decamped, late last night under dramatic circumstances. Acting on information received, four of the police force proceeded at 11.35 to a house occupied by Cyril Guthrie, at Dromore, and, surrounding the house, Constable Dunn was admitted after a delay of ten minutes. He asked Guthrie: “Where is he?” The latter led the way to the front of the house, stood aside, and said: “In here.” Dunn heard a shot, and, bursting in, found Chapman in bed with a pea-rille under the bedclothes ; also soft-nosed bullets, one of which had entered Chapman’s chest two inches above the heart. Medical aid and an ambulance were despatched, and Chapman was removed to the Hospital. His condition this morning is reported as not serious.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2334, 24 September 1921, Page 3
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154DRAMATIC AFFAIR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2334, 24 September 1921, Page 3
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