ESCAPEE RECAPTURED
AFTER TEN MONTHS’ LIBERTY (Bv Telegraph—Press Association, TE KUITI, This Day,.. As the result of information received the Te Kuiti police arrested Charles Bennett, who had successfully eluded the police since his escape from Hautu prison camp with Rov Morris nearly ten months ago. Morris had already been # recaptured. Bennett was caught by the police on the New Plymouth road, between Te Kuiti and Piopio. Bennett had left in a car driven by a commercial traveller,.and from information received two constables went out and arrested Bennett in a bouse where he and the traveller had stopped. Bennett submitted quietly. . . , He appeared before Justices ot the Peace at Te Kuiti court to-day, charged with escaping from legal custody on 20th February. He was remanded to appear at Hamilton on 21st Deeembei.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 December 1932, Page 6
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132ESCAPEE RECAPTURED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 December 1932, Page 6
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