CAPTURED PRISONER.
\. SCOTT APPEAHS IN COURT. h; * -SPRIGHTLY AND TIDY." >r ; tßy Telegraph.—Owe Correspondents ° HAMILTON", this day. y j Looking quite unperturbed and cerit ! tainly none the worse for his two years' i- J wandering about the country, evading rs arrest. Archibald John Scott, who on it ' April 2-5. 192-5. escaped from Mount Eden i- i gaol, where he was undergoing a seni tence for forgery, and who was arrested iat Te Aroha yesterday, appeared before I Mr. Wyvern Wilson to-day. He was ** i charged" with escaping fr(\» legal <-us- '• T J tody. ls \ Prisoner, who seemed quite sprightly and tidy, offered no objection t> a . ! remand "till the loth insu ~° i Scott was first heard of in the Te 3 " i Aroha district on May 23. having preff I \-iously eluded a search party near W"ae- • j rensa. During the past few days the | D i police at Te Aroha had been searching j for him. and when he was found yester_j! day by Constable Monson he was riding lv I a bicycle down Eastport Koad. At first o ' t -! he denied that he was the wanted man. .ig ! However, he afterwards admitted he was 3 s J Scott and submitted quiexly to am?-'.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 127, 1 June 1927, Page 11
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205CAPTURED PRISONER. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 127, 1 June 1927, Page 11
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