ESCAPEE CAPTURED.
DIET OF STOLEN FOOD.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
CHRIBTCHUKCH, Tuesday. A prisoner, named Frederick Creager, who escaped from Hanmer prison camp about six weeks ago, was captured this afternoon at Rolleston, where he had been living in a hut made out of woolpacks.
Creager was subsisting on a quantity of preserved meat stolen from the Islington Freezing Works, and also on "damper" made out of pollard and potatoes and cooked in a bucket. He had been filling in his time making horsehair watchguards, of which he had nine when arrested. *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14220, 17 November 1909, Page 7
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