BRIEF LIBERTY.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 72, 17 March 1914, Page 3

BRIEF LIBERTY.

TIMARU, March l;j. . Wilson, one of the two, youths who escaped' from Timaru Gaol two nights ago, was recaptured at noon to-day at Adair, five miles from town. He was bailed up by a constable when resting on the roadside. The escapee had obtained shoes, a revolver, and a* butcher's knife, and had some food,' He was very tired and loth to talk. His mate is supposed to have gone further south. When ifirat arrested both admitted that it. was they who tried to steal the motor launch in the Timaru Harbor some time ago. They intended to go to Auckland in her, out could set manage tli« engine.