LIVED WITH NATURE.
A BUSH DWELLER CAPTURED. WILL NOT TELL HIS STORY. By Telegraph.—Press Association Taihape, Last Night. An unkempt, primeval looking man, having several years' growth of hair on his face and head, was run to earth in the back country yesterday. He had subsisted on whatever came his way. For four or five years he has evaded the police and others, running like a deer, and jumping like a, dog. Eventually he was run down by a horseman, who had lain in wait on Mr. Cottrell's Ornamatua Station. The name he gave was Harry Willis, and his age is 50. Ho appeared to be sturdy and muscular. He had wandered over the hills in the country between Taihape and Napier for upwards of four years. At the Taihape Magistrate's Court, he pleaded not guilty to a charge of being an idle and disorderly person. He refused to give evidence or make an ex.l- - saying: "I will keep everything to myself." He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in Wellington gaol.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1920, Page 4
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172LIVED WITH NATURE. Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1920, Page 4
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