A SINGULAR CHARGE.
(EY TELEGRAPH—PKESS ASSOCIATION.)
ReeitoxS, this day,
A somewhat suggestive discovery has just been made by the police. A young man named James Allen, long employed on this field as a battery hand, was arrested at Greymouth this morning on suspicion of being in unlawful possession of a considerable quantity of retorted gold. The police applied to the bank in Groymouth, and obtained eighty ounces retorted gold alleged to have been lodged by Allen. The gold was just on tho point of being melted by the bank for Allen, who,with a man named Auguet, was en route for Dunedin Exhibition. Allen was employed at tho Sir Francis Drake Battery, the poorness of the returns from which rather puzzled the directors for some time past. Allen will be brought to Reef ton and charged.
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 288, 4 December 1889, Page 8
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135A SINGULAR CHARGE. Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 288, 4 December 1889, Page 8
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