MANIAC CAPTURED
SUBMITS QUIETLY WHEN SURPRISED BY POLICE. BRISBANE, Saturday. By the use of tact, three polieemen captured the madman who escaped from Goodna Mental Hospital yesterday morning. "If I had known at first you were police, you would not have got me so easily," the man is alleged to have said when he was captured. About 3 p.m., Ipswich police reeeived a message from W. S. Hall, of Ripley, that he had seen a man wh'om he suspected was the escapee making his way through the thick bush near there. Three plainclothes polieemen headed by Plainclothes Constable Hird, scoured the rough country at the foot of the mountains toward Peak Crossing. About 17 to 18 miles from Goodna the police saw a camp-fire, and beside it the man they wanted. Nearby were two iron bars. Knowing the man was dangerous, the police approached him and conversed with him for some minutes. The man was friendly but nervous, and when they finally revealed their business he offered no resistance.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 281, 22 July 1932, Page 8
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