CAPTURE OF AN ESCAPEE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 53, 11 June 1910, Page 5

CAPTURE OF AN ESCAPEE.

STORY OF THE CHASE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Xignt. John Treni'bath, who escaped from custody at Rakaia a week ago when being taken from Asbburton to Lyttelton gaol, was captured close >to Waiati this morning by Mounted Constable Hodgson, of Dunedin. lie oil'ered no n-istance, and was brought into Dnnedhi by the goods train this afternoon in the cusioiiy of Constables Osborne and Duniop, two Canterbury officers, who have been close oil his heels since Monday. Osborne and Duniop, who were on cycles, picked up the first trace of their man at Morveii on Tuesday. He was making south, and was barely a day ahead of them. At Waitati bridge they learned that a man, answering Trembath's description, had left the main road some hours since, and had struck across country into the hills west of Oamaru.

Trembath realised that he was ibeing closely followed, for lie made pace to Hillsgrove, and slept the night there at a boarding house, where he posed as a stock agent, and was half a day on -his way over the Horse Range towards Palmerston when the pursuers arrived at Hillgrove. They thought die was making for the Otago Central, and so tuey rode to Dunback, only to find they had got off the scent. This morning, just before Dunlop and Osborne (again hot on the scent) arrived at Waitati from Palmerston, Trembath walked into the trap set by Constable Hodgson, in plain clothes, along the main road.

Trembath was brought before the Court this afternoon, and remanded to appear at Christchnroh on Monday.