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New Zealand Mail, Issue 420, 28 February 1880, Page 9

The Auckland Star relates the manner in which a Maori prisoner lately made his escape at Helensville :—"lt appears that the constable had furnished the Maori with bags for a pillow, and the Maori rigged up a dummy with the bags, and stuffed the same under the blankets. The native got behind the door about breakfast time, and as the constable came in and walked toward the bed, the Maori popped from behind the door and escaped from the house, running over the property of Mr. McLeod, with Constable Naughton following hard, and shouting to a man named Kemmer, in the employ of Mr. McLeod. The native passed the house of the latter about thirty yards in advance of the constable, but Remmer, starting fresh, ran the aboriginal down in three minutes. The latter, armed with a pair of boots, was about to make a fight for it, when he saw Mr. Isaac McLeod bearing down on him, and the sight of so formidable an antagonist at once extinguished the fighting ardour of Mr. Heremaia, who surrendered himself once more to captivity.