SIX YEARS AT LARGE
K.Z. PRISONER APPREHENDED. LOCATED IN QUEENBLANE. Bv Telegraph—Press Association WANGANUI, Jan. 31. George James Cullen, alias J. Murray, who escaped from thee Waikune prison camp, near National Park, six years ago, was apprehended in Queensland and has been brought back to the Dominion at the request of the NewZealand police. He will be charged in the Magistrate’s Court here in the morning. Cullen, who was 28 years of age at tho time of his escape, made a dash for liberty on March 29, 1928. As he was getting away several shots were fired at him by a warder, but he was not hit. An extensive search was made in the rough hush country in the National Park region, but Cullen succeeded in getting clear, and it was not until some little time ago that bo was located in Quecnslanjl.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 43, 1 February 1934, Page 6
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