SLEPT FEW YARDS FROM THE POLICE.
ESCAPED PRISONER RESISTS RE-ARREST.
Per -Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 8.
The escaped prisoner, William Henry Grant, was recaptured at 11 a.m. to-day at the’ rear of the Church of Christ, in Ponsonby Road. Although suffering from an injured leg sustained in his dropping from the Mt Eden Gaol wall, he offered a show of resistance to two arresting constables. Grant slept in Western Park, only a few yards from the Newton Police Station.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18332, 8 December 1927, Page 9
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