A CURIOUS DISCOVERY.
[BY TELEGRAPH.— association.] Wellington, M onday. IN effecting repairs to a house on Thorndon Quay, a. suit of convict clothes bearing the New Plymouth Gaol mark were found stuffed in the .studs of a bow window. They were mouldy and had evidently been there for years. Later. The convict clothes discovered at Thorndon have been recognised by the gaolers as the suit worn by Crabtree when he escaped from Mount Cook gaol two or three years
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8272, 3 June 1890, Page 5
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79A CURIOUS DISCOVERY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8272, 3 June 1890, Page 5
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