ESCAPED PRISONER CAUGHT
m " (BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.) INVERCARGILL, 3rd Sept. Running along Tweed-street footpath shortly before 10 o'clock this morning, an individual carrying his hat in his hand and wearing a jacket made of an ordinary grain sack, and a pair of white .trousers, created some excitement. The strange rig-out aroused the suspicion of Sergeant Bingham's son, and on being informed the sergeant set off in pursuit on a bicyclft. He overtook the fugitive, and the man returned with him to the Police Station. The escapee was one of a prison gang working on the reclamation works. His name is John Edward Blonpuist, and he has a lengthy list' of convictions against him for theft, assault, vagrancy, etc., in various parts of ■New Zealand. On sth July last he was sentenced to six months 1 ' hard labour and three years' reformative treatment, on a charge of assault ,with intent to do actual bodily harm.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 58, 5 September 1913, Page 4
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155ESCAPED PRISONER CAUGHT Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 58, 5 September 1913, Page 4
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