AN ESCAPED PRISONER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 138, 29 October 1912, Page 2

AN ESCAPED PRISONER.

RECAPTURED ON SUNDAY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Whangarei, Monday. Ihe man Huston, who escaped from the Hikuraiigi Police Station on Thursday, was recaptured by Constable Armstrong, assisted by a civilian named Williams, at 9 o'clock last night, between Tama-rcru and Opua. It lias been elicited that Huston purchased a fishing line and hooks from a store at Kawakawa, previous to which had stolen some carpenters' tools, which were found in his possession. The owner is unknown. His intention was. to get on board a boat as ship's carpenter. The first clue as to his whereabouts was obtained from his calling at a gumdiggcr's hut at Hukeruuui. After leaving Kawakawa, he lit a fire at a brick kiln, hastily decamping when observed by three young men, who communicated with the police. He was overtaken near the seaboard and submitted to capture without resistance. He was brought to Whangarei to-day, and will be charged to-morrow with burglary, of tools, and breaking gaol. A peculiar coincidence, which led to the police being in the vicinity,'was that an immigrant of precisely the same description was being traced, but he was able to satisfy the police who went to arrest him at Motatau. Huston had followed the mam road from Hikuraiigi to Opua dodging into the side scrub to avoid detection by people passing. - He travelled nearly 40 miles before his recapture.