FUGITIVE'S LEAP
STEEP 100-FOOT SLOPE ESCAPED PRISONER CAUGHT [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] TURAXGI, Sunday A foolhardy leap down a steep 100 ft. slope was made by a prisoner, John Archibald Cant ell, who escaped from the Hantu prison farm on Monday, when he was challenged by carders after dark on the Turangi-Taupo road near Jellicoe Point. The fugitive was later recaptured. Had Cantell jumped a few yards to either side he would probably' have been killed on the rocky face of the cliff, but where he jumped the scrub broke his fall. He then struck east into rough country, but patrols turned him south, and he was later seen on the Waiouru-Turangi road by a Publio Works Department gang. Shortly afterward he was in custody once more.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23840, 16 December 1940, Page 6
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