“The Press” In 1866

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31089, 18 June 1966, Page 14

“The Press” In 1866

June 20 GEORGE DOBSON.—In reference to the probable fate of Mr George Dobson the “Otago Daily Times” of the 16th, contains the following important information:— ,r We have published in a telegram and in other ways that Mr George Dobson—who was connected with the Survey Department of Canterbury, and was the son of the Chief Engineer of that province—had started one evening to go a few miles from the Grey Diggings, and had not since been heard of. Search parties were sent out but they searched uselessly; and the general fear had come to be entertained at the date pf the last papers from Greymouth, that Dobson had been mistaken for a gold buyer, and had

been murdered by some of the desperate men known to be in the district We regret to say that there is now reason for supposing that the belief was correct; for last evening a telegram was received from Canterbury by the Commissioner of Police, stating that ‘Warrants have been issued by the bench at Greymouth, for the arrest of the persons described below, charged with having murdered George Dobson of the 29th ult’ The ‘persons named* are three daring scoundrels known in Otago, being no other than Richard Burgess, alias Hill, Thomas Kelly, alias Hannon, and John Joseph Sullivan, who, in the ejrly days of Gabriel’s gully, up some men near Wetherstones, and afterwards fired upon the police...