RE-CAPTURED.
SENSATIONAL ARREST OP CRIMINAL. CONSTABLE'S PLUCKY ACITOA A sensational arrest was effected : bj Constable Williams, of terday afternoon, the result being Hat Robert Nixon Warden, a dangentu criminal, who escaped from Mt. Eden gaol on September 29tli last, and wko has since been nt liberty, was again taken into custody.
Ever since Warden's escape, to# police nil over the Dominion have been on tho look-out for him. Word reached the Sydenham nolice yesterday that a man corresponding to Warden's description had been seen in the Bistrict and tho result was that Constable Will liams, when out on enquiries, saw a man whom he suspected might be Warden, near Fisher street, Fisherton, near Colombo street, and •at once accosted him. > v
On betTis* nsked his namo the man replied "Maggon." Constable WilKuns then said: "What is your comet name?" and in Answer the man drew * revolver, and, covering the constahle, said: "Tint is my name." Constable Williams immediatoly-clofed with iiis man, and though -the siAt'Of v tho revolver persuaded most of. 1 lookers to keep out of harm's, waya postman went to tho constable's aunt ance, and beforo long the man way otbt. powered, and securely roped, in which condition ho was taken to the cental I police station. The revolver he produced was ' to be unloaded, though the a box off cartridge* on his poraon/iHil identity was established as that ofth? missing prisoner Warden, who, u\h9 s was being taken to the colls, reninrmtv to Senior-Sergeant Cummings, "Hftll/ you'vo now got another chance of ptiV tine me up." Warden's people, who were .waHknown to the police, previously livid in Christchurch, in which' city he waa brought up. which probably., account* for the fact that on each occasion tfcatv he escaped ho sought refuge here# / - Although Warden is only 26 yean of t a<?o, ho is nn habitual criminnl. In May of last year he received a sentence of five years' imprißonrn<jjt. f«r brwlcing and entering in Christchurch. Int'r some time later ho oseaped from Paparua prison, and, after a period cof A liberty, was arrested by Sergeant' O'Grady when coming out of the Oner#House. He was then sent to Mt, BdeA;, gaol, Auckland, which is classed aa ti». 1 strongest gaol in New Zealand, andon. September 29th ho succeeded in cutting out one of the "Bars in his cell .and escaping from tho gaol precincts. /H» ; has_ at present sixteen conridtioni against his name, most of them being for crimps allied to those of the professional thief.
He will appear at the Mairistrate?! Court this morning, charged with escaping from legal custody at Auckland.
RE-CAPTURED.
Press, Volume LV, Issue 16653, 14 October 1919, Page 6
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