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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 February 1940Vol. X, No. 7

Loose Again

p. 50 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent

Apia, Jan. 15.

A DANGEROUS criminal, the Samoan -Tl. Samuelu, serving a sentence for rape, who has many times previously escaped from custody, has once again made a successful break from Tafaigata prison, and is at present at large.

Some time ago the local newspaper remarked that, like the Canadian Moun ties, the Samoan police “always get their man”. It seems, however, that there is a slight difference in Samoa—they can not hold their man, after they get him.