A SMART ARREST.
A LEVANTER CAPTURED,
ABOUT TO SAIL FOR AMERICA,
A SERIOUS CHARGE,
(BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, this day. A remarkably clever arrosb was effected Sy Detective Campbell tbi3 morning. Last aichb the police received a message ao nine i o'clock . saying that James Dawson, j "hief accountant of tho New Zealand insurance Company at Dunedin, Lad disappeared. 4akingwitl»hiin£sooofthecompany'3money. Dawson was believed to have drawn tba! >Qoney from the bank on Saturday morning and to have left by the exprosa tho same ""riiis morning Defective Campbell went 3 n board the ship Canterbury, which was ■lust about to clear for Boston, and found a clean shaved man in the bunk, whom he Accused of being Dawson. _ Eventually the man admitted his iden jity and was taken ashore. He had secured, a saloon passage for £30 and on him was found a draft on the bank of Call- j {ornia. for 480 dollars and £50 ia gold Dawson, who is 28 years of age, had been in the Company's service for thirteen years. But for an accidont to tho wheel, the «mp would have sailed yesterday, some hours before the police heard anything about it. As it was, the detective was only just id time, the Canterbury leaving a few minuter after his arrest.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 139, 14 June 1893, Page 8
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215A SMART ARREST. Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 139, 14 June 1893, Page 8
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