BRIEF LIBERTY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8264, 29 October 1912, Page 10

BRIEF LIBERTY

RECAPTURED AFTER FORTY MILES' TRAMP. . Press Associatiop. WHANGABEI, October 28. The man Edward Lansing Huston, who escaped from the Hikurangi Police Station last Thursday, was recaptured by Constable Armstrong, assisted by a civilian named Williams, at nine last night between Tamareire and Opua. Hueton purchased a fishing lino, and hooks from a store at Kawa Ivawa, 'previous to which he had stolon some carpenter's tools which were found in his possession. Their owner is unknown. It was his intention to get aboard a boat as ship's carpenter. 'lino first clue as to his whereabouts was obtained from his calling at a gumdigger’s hut at Hukorenui. After leaving Kawa. Kawa he lit a fire in a brick kiln, hastily decamping when he found ho waa observed by three young men, who communicated with the police. The prisoner was overtaken dear the seaboaird. He submitted without resdstance, and will bo brought to Wihangarei today, and be charged to-morrow with burglary, theft of tools, and breaking gaol. A peculiar coincidence which led to tho police being in the vicinity was that an immigrant of precisely the same description was being traced, but he was able to satisfy the police who went to arrest him at Motatau. Huston had followed tho main road from Hikurangi to Opua, dodging into the side scrub to avoid detection by passers-by. He travelled nearly forty miles before he was recaptured.