Escaped Prisoner.
Te Ropiha, alias Piha, alias Tolii, who was sentenced on the sth March last, 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 iinger 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 horsestealing. (See Police Gazette, 1886, page 26.)
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New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XII, Issue 12, 6 June 1888, Page 110
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97Escaped Prisoner. New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XII, Issue 12, 6 June 1888, Page 110
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