PRISONER RECAPTURED
FREE FOB TEN MONTHS [Pbk United Press Association.] TE KUITI, December 14. As the result of information received to-day the Te Kuiti police arrested Charles Bennett, who tor nearly ten months has successfully eluded the police. He escaped from the Hautu prison camp in company with Roy Morris, who has since been recaptured. Bennett was caught by the police on the New Plymouth road between Te Kuiti and Piopio this morning. He had been seen in a ear with a commercial traveller, and two constables went out and arrested him in a house at which he and the traveller had stopped. He submitted quietly. Bennett later appeared before justices of the peace in the court at To Kuiti on a charge of escaping from legal custody on February 20. Ho was remanded to appear at Hamilton on December 21.
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Evening Star, Issue 21286, 15 December 1932, Page 19
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141PRISONER RECAPTURED Evening Star, Issue 21286, 15 December 1932, Page 19
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