ALARMIST REPORTS.
ESCAPE OF PRISONER. a MARTON, January 14. Owing to the fact that a prisoner »vho escaped from the Erua prison camp is prowling round the country, every visitor in some of the Main Trunk districts is viewed with suspicion. On Wednesday, at Mangaweka, the rumour spread that Welch, the escapee, had been seen to alight from the midday train from .’he north. The news was flashed to Constable Thompson at Hunterville, who went post haste by motor car to Mangaweka.
Constable O’Donoghue, who was attending an inquest at the time, was informed, and hurriedly left to make inquiries, the eoronial proceedings being held up meanwhile. An inoffensive stranger, who only vaguely answered to the description of the escaped prisoner, was interrogated, and had no difficulty in proving his bona tides. Constable Thompson then left fir ■Hunterville, and the inquest' proceedings were resumed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3801, 18 January 1927, Page 35
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