PRISONER RECAPTURED
IN STOLEN YACHT. GISBORNE, February 11. A prisoner who escaped from the Limited Express, between'Frankton and Te Awamutu, on the night of January 31, and was reported on Saturday to have disappeared in a yacht stolen from Mount Maunganui, on Monday, was recaptured off the coast near Ruatoria, in the early hours of thi s morning. The prisoner was Richard Humphreys, 22. A vessel .answering to the description of the missing yacht, was first seen off the coast five miles north of Ruatoria, and Humphreys was later arrested bv Constable J. W. Birch and brought to Gisborne.
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Grey River Argus, 12 February 1941, Page 7
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99PRISONER RECAPTURED Grey River Argus, 12 February 1941, Page 7
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