Capture of an Escaped Prisoner.
(Per Press Association.) Nelson, March 19. ; Jas. Breen, a prisoner serving a short sentence, and also awaiting trial at the Supreme Court sittings commencing to morrow, who escaped from the gaol at eleven o'clock yesterday j morning, was re-captured at Brightwater to-night. The police searched every outlet from the district, and the man, who had kept in hiding during the day, was evidently proceeding along the road towards the coast after dark when he was arrested by a plain clothes constable
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 222, 20 March 1895, Page 2
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