A LUNATIC RE-CAPTURED
+ GREAT FEAT OF ENDURANCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association ) INVERCARGILL, Wednesday. The re-capture in the Lakes district of an escapee from Scaeliflj Menial Hospital reveals an extraordinary feat of endurance. Three weeks ago the man reached Arrowtown, and told a resident lie intended to go rabbiting, and lie would shoot a few men with his revolver. The police were informed, and Constable Dunlop, of uoeenstown, went out in pursuit of the lunatic, who had meanwhile disappeared, lie was tracked to the Skippers, where traces were lost.
Later the constable was informed that the man had been seen near Earnslaw on Sunday, lie surprised him in a hut.
The lunatic, who submitted quietly, had a butcher's knife and three cartridges tin his possession, bill no revolver or gun. lie bad spent the whole time in the mountainous country, sleeping in the snow and eating raw rabbit and goal's flesh. Sirefooted be crossed Mount Orman (neaply 8000 feet, high) and except f'"' lacerated hands and feet and extreme hunger he was none the worse for his experiences. He was returned to Seaeliff.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14767, 5 October 1921, Page 5
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