ESCAPE OF A PRISONER.
About 7 o'clock this (Monday) morning a prisoner named Bacon, an old man who had almost completed three months for vagrancy at Mokau, — escaped from the local gaol, and made in the direction of Vogoltown, where he must have got in hiding. It •3cms that this morning he and another prisoner went down to the back of tho gaol to empty some slops, when he hied away as stated. Constables Roche and Scully and several of the gaol staff went in search at once.
Later. — The escaped prisoner Bacon was caught on the Fraukley Road by two settlers, Messrs Collins and Eva, who were bringing him to town when they met Constable Scully, and handed the prisoner over to him.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8764, 28 April 1890, Page 2
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124ESCAPE OF A PRISONER. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8764, 28 April 1890, Page 2
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