of escaped prisoner Brian Carlton Rogers' recapture by Police on Saturday morning.

"I've never seen anything like that before,'' said one woman, who was camping with her family at the St. George's park over the weekend.

"There were four Police officers chasing him after the dog flushed him out of the bushes. When he saw them, he dove into the water and desperately swam away. They all jumped in after him.'' The chase was the climax of a week-long manhunt which Police mounted after the 40-year-old career criminal broke through his cell wall at St. George's Police Station and escaped.

After days on the run, Rogers made his way to Ferry Island, just off Ferry Point, and hid in the bushes.

But Police arrived not long afterward and staked the Island out for almost four hours, waiting for him to make the next move.

Residents Oluf and Barbara Ingemann said they were woken at 5.30 a.m. by their two dogs barking.

"We had no idea what was going on but we looked out the window and saw a man rowing our punt away.'' Mr. Ingemann said: "I shouted at him, asking him where he was going. He said `I ain't going nowhere' and just kept going.'' He described how he ran down to his motor-powered dinghy and chased Rogers across the water as he frantically tried to row away.

"He saw that he wasn't going to get away so he went into the shore and scrambled up into the park.'' Mr. Ingemann added that Rogers had stolen a pit bull puppy from another St.

George's residence in order to distract the dogs at the Ingemanns' house while he stole the boat.

"It was pretty smart and he obviously had a plan,'' he said. "It was clear that guy had no intention of allowing himself to be re-caught.'' Mr. Ingemann also said he heard Rogers had stole a golf cart from the St.

George's Club, which he used in his evasion of authorities.

One camper, who asked not to be named, said she was woken up at 7.30 a.m. that morning by Police who wanted to make sure Rogers was not hiding in her tent.

But she said officers saw him sitting under a tree on Ferry Island just after that and decided to stake him out before pouncing on him at around 11 a.m.

The woman said: "When the four officers first went over, they couldn't find him. It wasn't until the dog was brought over that they flushed him out.'' She said officers shouted "get him'' and ran after him. When he jumped into the water and swam away, she said they jumped in and swam after him.

"They surrounded him and made him put his hands up because they thought he might have a knife. But he kept on shouting that he didn't have one.

"Then they hauled him ashore and took him away. There were lots of people watching all of this and we all gave the Police a round of applause.'' In regards to how she felt when watching the capture, the woman said: "It was exciting. There's no denying that.'' But asked if it scared her that Rogers, a sex attacker considered by Police to be dangerous, had been hiding out nearby, she said: "You can't be scared off by what you don't know about. He didn't do anything to us anyway. He was just hiding out.'' She said this incident would not deter her from coming back to Ferry Reach for future Cup Matches.