ESCAPED PRISONER RECAPTURED
* Leo Oswald Buttle, a labourer, aged 39, who escaped from Paparua prison on Tuesday afternoon, was arrested at 9,30 yesterday morning about three miles from Darfield by Constable L. Fox, of Darfield. Buttle had been sentenced the day before his escape to two months’ imprisonment for unlawfully converting a motor-car to his own use.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23088, 2 August 1940, Page 11
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