ESCAPED PRISONER.
BOLD BID FOR LIBERTY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Te Awamutu, Last Night. James Brown Olsen, who escaped from the Waikeria reformatory on October 6, was before the court to-day. He was a member of a camp party four miles from the reformatory block, and was detailed to carry water for the camp, thus finding an opportunity to escape. He evaded his pursuers and travelled across the island to Napier, where he was arrested. He was sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labor, the sentence to be cumulative.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1921, Page 4
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87ESCAPED PRISONER. Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1921, Page 4
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