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HOSPITAL ESCAPEE
Arrested by City Police
Nellie Cameron, who escaped from the Newcastle Hospital some weeks ago in sensational circumstances, was recaptured by the consorting squad in Palmer Street last night.
The woman had been admitted to bail pending the hearing of her appeal against a sentence of a month’s imprisonment for stealing. The appeal was dismissed, but Cameron in the meantime had disappeared. Some time later it was learned that she was an inmate in Newcastle Hospital, and that two men, one of whom was believed to be Frank Green, who has an unenviable police record, had been visiting her. Green had previously given an undertaking to leave the State. The Newcastle police intended to arrest the woman when she was discharged from hospital, but the night before she was to h
