RECAPTURE OF ESCAPEE
BENNETT ARRESTED AT TE KUITI. ELUDED POLICE TEN. MONTHS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Te Kuiti, Last Night. The Te Kuiti police to-day arrested Charles Bennett, who for nearly ten months successfully eluded the police since his escape from the Hautu prison camp with Roy Morris, who was recaptured. Bennett was caught by the police on the New Plymouth road between Te Kuiti and Piopio this morning. He had received a lift in a commercial traveller’s car, and from information received two constables went out and arrested Bennett to a house where he and the travelled had stopped. He submitted quietly. Bennett appeared before Justices of the Peace at Te Kuiti to-day and was charged with escaping from legal custody on February 10. He was remanded to appear at Hamilton on December 21.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1932, Page 5
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