EMBARRASSED "SWAGGIES"
:_ While the escaped criminal Wilson is'at large, sundowners and their kind are receiving a lot of .embarrassing attention in the Auckland district. One unfortunate "sw.nggie," whose appearance corresponds in a general way to that of the escaped prisoner, has been five times chased by the police, reports an exchange, lie was first reported by a woman' who gave him a- lift in her ear near. Papakura. The police went in pursuit, and found only an inoffensive swagman "padding tho hoof" southward. Between Papakura and' tho Bazorback, "Wilson" was reported on four more occasions by suspicious folk, and each time the police recaptured and released their old acquaintance. Probably he is even now being ■"chivvied" through the Waikato or Hauraki Plains by conscientious sergeants, and receiving with proper dignity their apologies for the mistake.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1932, Page 9
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135EMBARRASSED "SWAGGIES" Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1932, Page 9
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