ESCAPEE RECAPTURED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 15, 15 December 1932, Page 11

ESCAPEE RECAPTURED.

TEN MONTHS’ LIBERTY. Per Press Association. TE KUITI, Dec. 14. As a result of information received, the Te Kuiti police arrested Charles Bennett, who lias successfully eluded the police since his escape from the Hautu prison camp with Roy Morris, nearly ten months ago. Morris has already been recaptured. Bennett was caught by the police on the New Plymouth road between Te Kuiti and Piopio this morning. Bennett had left in a car driven by a commercial traveller, and from information received (two constables went out and arrested’ Bennett in a house where he and the traveller had stopped. Bennett submitted quietly. He appeared before Justices of the Peace at the Te Kuiti Court to-day., and was charged with escaping from legal custody on February 20. He was remanded to appear at Hamilton on December 21.

AUCKLAND ESCAPEES. AUCKLAND, Dec. 14. AArith the recapture on Sunday of Frederick William Schluter, the prisoner who escaped from Mt. Eden Gaol on April 29, and the recapture to-day of Charles Bennett, only one criminal who has escaped from custody in the Auckland province this year has not been recaptured. Thomas AVilliam AA’ilson, aged 26, who was serving a five-years’ term in Mt. Eden Prison for a series of crimes in Dunedin, including a vicious attack on an aged pawnbroker and his wife, escaped from the Auckland Hospital last December, and efforts to trace him since have met with no success. It is believed by the police that he left New Zealand for Australia, whore he was born, and had many friends.