PRISONER RECAPTURED.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1921, Page 5

PRISONER RECAPTURED.

A DRAMATIC INCIDENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Ashburton, Sept. 23. The prisoner Herbert Chapman, who jumped from the express near Ashburton on Tuesday week, was recaptured at Dromore, six miles from the point where he decamped, late last night, under dramatic circumstances. Acting on information received, four policemen proceeded at 11.35 to a house occupied by Cyril Guthrie at Dromore and surrounded It. Constable Dunn wae admitted to the house after a delay of ten minutee, and asked Guthrie, “Where is he?” The latter led the way to the front of the house, stood aside, and said, “In here.” Dunn heard ft .shot, and, bursting in, found Chapman in bed with a pea-rifle under the bed clothes, also soft-nosed bullets, one of which entered Chapman’s chest, two inches above the heart. Medical aid and the amublance were dispatched, and Chapman was removed to the hospital. His condition this morning was reported not serious.