A SMART CAPTURE.

Press, Volume II, Issue 8704, 29 January 1894, Page 4

A SMART CAPTURE.

For some ,timo past the Ohrifltohttflh police authorities have bad information tc - . the, oifeob M certain ponons mmM] -with a. brutal assault upon a Sydney cobstable might be likely to visit New ise»la«<J» A description of the mon wanted wafl &!fc> eeut from Sydney. Oα Friday evening, Iwapootor HSvotuun vacQived the from the other sido aad also inforaifr- . \ tiou which tended to etipw ,ts»k themanhwi " olcweii out" of %<iney, As \ the \>arq,q» Grassmoce was pxpected !re» ; Sydney on,tsatarday morning, Chief Detecilvi O'Connor left Chmtchurch by the ftw o'clock train for the purpose of meeting bet. ' W Hβ., had, however, previously taken tto m precaution to telephone particulars' otidl A if description of tho men '" wanted " to tfee.. 1 Lytteltoa police. • The barque, m W 1 happened, arrived before ihe train got iq& 1 Lyttelton, bat Constables Fitzgerald Mil & Moore boarded her, and ia & few iniaulek m had iv custody two stowaways named- 1 respectively William Chevriil and AliohseJ, m Purcell. Upon th« arrival of tfi*e detective - S the prisoners, wore recognised as two Of ths ' E ihtcQ men fuf whom warrants had hm M issued, and upon boiug questioned they m admitted that thoy had been correotlf ,g described* bub denied the offencio. It m appears • that early on January If & mob of larrlkiaa collected at $$. 1 Glebe, near Syduey, and made a. huge boo*' g fire > endangering property and conaactisg m Lhemaelveg in a disgraceful raannar., 1 stable Wm. Coldmavi, of the Sydney ineit*; r politan police force, happened to be at bfttt& -If in plain clothes, aad upon him remoniffllfr,, m iag the larrikina set upon him, knocked )m S down, kicked him, ana broko his. jaw, He m has ainee been invalided. , The. Sydjiej ,~ m Eoltco have been looking for the M ub without aucbese. The prisoners tf**» . B brought up to Chrietchnrch in tl»i» uejPT m train, and placed in the dock before Mf- M, Beetham, R.M.; upon the charge of" hiVlflg m. on the lat January* in tho Metropolis, M, district of Now South Wales, maliciously 1 ; . wouudod one Willium Coldman with i»t*ot, J| to do him grievous bodily harm." B' wore -not represented by counsel, bttb Bw« • W' they wanted to be sent back at onea tf m Sydney to meet fcho charge. •^ n8 P c S Broham opposed the requeet, end »»»«* ' B for a remand, which y/m grauted BAW b February Ist. • • ,- ,1\ a