PRISONER'S ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE.
PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.
! Wellington, September 26. John Moffat, aged 22, committed for trial on a charge of theft from a duelling, esoaped from the Terrace Gaol at 9.15 this morning. He scaled the wall of the exeroise yard, and although fired at by a warder, continued his flght and got olear away.
Wellington, September 27. Moffat was captured by two warders after a short ohose in Abel Smithstreet.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 207, 28 September 1903, Page 2
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72PRISONER'S ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 207, 28 September 1903, Page 2
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