ESCAPED PRISONER.
SEQUEL AT AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 18. A charge of knowingly harbouring a prisoner, Frederick William Schluter who escaped from Mt. Eden Inson on April 30, and is still at large, was brought against a fruiterer named Alexander Mason, aged 35, in the Police Court to-day. The polioo said that Mason had been employing Schluter’s’ wife as a housekeeper, and Schluter went to Mason’s house after his escape and stayed there until May 15, when there was a row and Mason told him to go. Mason was a decent man and had never been, in trouble before. Counsel said that Mason how realised what he had done and regretted it very much, but his heart had run away with his head. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., imposed a fine of £lO, or two months’ imprisonment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 142, 18 May 1932, Page 7
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139ESCAPED PRISONER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 142, 18 May 1932, Page 7
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