ESCAPED PRISONER RECAPTURED.
[BS TELEGRAPH — PHESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, 16th Nov. A prisoner named Frederick Greager, who escaped from Hanmer prison camp about six weeks ago. was captured this afternoon at Rolleston, where he had been living in a tent made out of woolpacks. He was living on a quantity of preserved meat, also damper made a\}t of pollard and potatoes cooked in a buvket. He had been filling in his time making horsehair watch-guards, of which he bad nine when arrested.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 120, 17 November 1909, Page 41
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81ESCAPED PRISONER RECAPTURED. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 120, 17 November 1909, Page 41
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