Escaped Prisoner.
Te Ropiha, alias Piha, alias Tohi, who was sentenced on the sth instant, at Maketu, to three months’ labour for larceny, escaped on the following day from the custody of Constable McCluskey, Maketu Police. Description : A Maori, a labourer, twenty-eight years of age, sft. s|in. high, black hair and brown eyes, two blue dots tattooed on left arm, left little finger contracted. He is identical with the man of the same name who was sentenced at Auckland on the 3rd April, 1882, to five years’ penal servitude for horse-stealing. (See Police Gazette, 1886, page 26.)
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New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XII, Issue 6, 14 March 1888, Page 54
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97Escaped Prisoner. New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XII, Issue 6, 14 March 1888, Page 54
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