IS THERE A FRIEND?
"I GAVE HIM A FEED."
One theory is that Powelka is being aided by a friend or friends, and in this connection a correspondent of a Wellington paper says: —"lf it is Powelka who has stolen so many things hero he has collected far too big a stock to carry about with him. Still they are duly made- use of. Therefore he must have a secret storage place. When he entered the store at Scarborough he looked as though he had been fed on cream for a month. That's how the shop assistant put it. If he is looking so well he could not have been roughing it much, and that was most likely owing to the help of a friend."
It is alleged that a young farmer in Palmerston on Sunday night said that he and several others had known that Powelka had slept in a certain haystack in their locality on three different nights. The young man added that he gave Powelka a feed and that the escapee said that he only wanted to shoot three persons, whom he named as Detective Quirke, the sergeant, and his wife. It is also alleged that the farmer said that they would not inform the police of the hiding placfc until a bigger reward was offered. >
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14345, 15 April 1910, Page 6
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