A KEEN CHASE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 840, 11 June 1910, Page 6

A KEEN CHASE.

ESCAPEE RECAPTURED. iliy. Telceraoh—Press Association.) • Dunedin, Juno 10. John Trombath, who escaped from .custody at Ilakaia a wcok ago when being taken from Ashburton to L'yttcl-. ion Gaol, was captured closo to Waitati this morning by Mounted-Constable Hodgson, of Dunedin. Ho offered no resistance, and was brought into Dunedin by goods train this afternoon in custody of Constables Osborn and Dunlop, two Canterbury officers who have been closo on his heels sincfe Monday." Constables Osborn and Dunlop, who were on cycles, picked up the first traoe of their man at Morven 011 Tuesday. He was "making south, and was barely a day ..ahead of them. At AVaitaki Bridge" they learned that a man answering Trembath's description had left the main road some hours ago, and had struck across country into the hills west of Oamaru. Trembath realised that he was being closely prcsswl, for he made the pace ; to Hillgrove, slept the night there at a boardinghouse, where he posed as a stock'agent; and was half a day, 011 his way over •tlio Horse Range towards Palmerston when his pursuers arrived at Hillgrove. They thought 110 was making for Otago Central,, and rode to Dunback only to find they had got off the scent. This morning, just beforo Diuilop and Osborn • (again hot 011 the scent) arrived Waitaki from Palmerston, Trembath walked into a trap.- Constable Hodgson, in plain clothes along tho main road, met him and arrested him. Trembath was brought - before tho Court this afternoon, and remanded to appear at Christchurch on Monday.