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McNeil violently resists ARREST. [per press association.] Wanganui, February 10. Archibald McNeil, who escaped from the Terrace Gaol, Wellington, on January 23, was captured this morning at Koriniti pah, forty miles up the Wanganui river, by Constable Thompson. The prisoner was reported to have been seen at Wangaehu, 18 miles from here, last Thursday, since when the police have been on his trail. He represented himself as a relative from Australia to a farmer near Wanganui, and stayed there a couple of dys, bein gtroed from there lo Koriniti. Be voilently resisted arrest and once got away from the constable, making for a horse which fie had. saddled and bridled in case of surprise. McNeill, who ia a powerful fellow, said he had vainly tried to get possession of a revolver, arid if he had had one, he would not have been captured, j He had a razor and a pocket knife on him when arrested, and vainly endeavoured to get at the razor when' struggling with tUe policeman, Wanganui, February 11. McNeil was before the Court this morning and remanded to appear at Wellington on the 18th.

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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 801, 11 February 1909, Page 2

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RE-CAPTURED. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 801, 11 February 1909, Page 2

RE-CAPTURED. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 801, 11 February 1909, Page 2

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