RECAPTURED

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1920, Page 3

RECAPTURED

ESCAPED PRISONER “IN AGAIN”

FOUND AT LARGE: IN THE CITY. The* prisoner Michael McCann, alias Langley, who escaped from Mt. Eden gaol on Monday morning, was iv-capluied in the cby shortly after three o’clock on Tuesday afternoon. Just how the man got away is not known. He was with a gang that went out of the prison at 9 a.m. to work at the adjacent quarry, and was not missing until the gangs were brought together about 11.30 a.m. in preparation for the mid-day meal. Search parties were immediately sent out in the vicinity, and the police were pin: on the qui vive. Just after 3 p.m., Plain-Clothes Constable Meiklcjohn, when walking down Grey Street, noticed-a man whom he

thought resembled the prisoner standing at the door of the Carpenters’ Arms Hotel. When the man went into the hotel as the constable approached, the latter was convinced that it was the escapee, and follow ed and arrested him inside. McCann was then wearing a full rig of civilian clothing, and in addition to a small stock of cigarette tobacco and papers, had a water-tight match box, containing steel, flint, and tinder, a contrivance commonly carried by people in the bush, or other remote places. In duo coarse McCann will be brought before a magistrate on a charge of having escaped from custody.