LONG ARM OF THE LAW.
ISLAND ESCAPEE CAUGHT. [from our own correspondent.] SUVA, Fob. 6. The averago offender in Fiji, if he does get clew of the police for a time, usually recognises the uselessness of trying to escape and gives himself up; an exception to this rule is an Indian named Nanhu, who, in 1918, escaped from the Lautoka gaol while under committal for the murder of his "woman' 1 at Koranabuta in the Ba district. The murder was a, very brutal one and caused some indignation at the time. Nanhu won clear and although every policeman throughout the island was fully seized with Nanhu's description nothing was heard of him until last week, when he was cleverly arrested by an Indian member of the C.I.D. in the market, place at Nausori, on the Rewa.
The arrest has made a considerable impression on the Indian community, who fully appreciate the strength of the arm of tho law.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 9
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