Escaped Prisoner.
Mohi te Kati, alias Werepu, is charged, on warrant issued by the Tauranga Bench, with escaping, at 5.40 p.m. on the 4th instant, from tho custody of Constable Thomas Whelan, at Tauranga. Description : A Maori, a labourer, thirty-one years of ago, about 5 feet 9 inches high, slight build, very thin black beard whiskers and moustache, NGAWHE tattooed on breast, very active; dressed in black paget-coat, light-tweed trousers and vest, very tall hard felt hat, which is too small for him, and elastic-side boots. About 7.30 p.m. a Native, supposed to bo the offender, was seen galloping a horse furiously along tho Orope Road. His wife and mother live at To Puke. He was committed for trial by the Ohinemutu Bench on a charge of burglary, and was awaiting removal to Auckland Gaol. He was sentenced, at Whakatane, on the lltli June, 1879, to six months’ labour for larceny, (See Police Gazette, 1879, page 221.)
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New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 17, 20 August 1884, Page 142
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157Escaped Prisoner. New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 17, 20 August 1884, Page 142
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