CIRCUMVENTING A BOLD ROBBER.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3904, 24 January 1884, Page 4

CIRCUMVENTING A BOLD ROBBER.

We recently announced in our telegraphic intelligence that a determined attack had been made on Mr Oscar Dickson, of Gothenburg, well known in connection with Baron Nordenskjold. From further details we learn that a man, (in artillery sergeant of about 23 years of age, who had been dismissed, but with 'whom Mr Dickson had had no previous connection, made his way into the private office of the latter and presented a letter. Mr Dickson, who in used to such applications, asked tho man if it wa.s money he wanted, and ho at once said " Yes," and when Mr Diekson asked who rncoin.iiendcd him—"No one," the man replied, and told Mr Dickson to read the letter and it would tell him all about it. "No," Mr Dickson replied, "leave the letter and I'll read it and send you a reply." But that would not satisfy the man, who insisted that the letter should be read at once. On Mr Dickson requesting the man to go away quietly, the latter drew a doubln-barrelled pistol and presented it at the head of Mr Dickson, who, with great coolness, after eyeing the man for a minute, told him to stop that foolery and leave the room. This took tho man off his guard, and Mr Dickson at once seized the pistol, and collared the man, when a desperate struggle ensued, in which Mr Dickson succeeded in wrenching tho pistol from tho man, and laying the latter" flat "on the floor. Shouting for his .clerks he asked them ta get the police, a.nd went out and locked the door. When a policeman came Mr Dickson cautiously opened the door, when to his amazement he saw a pile of dynamite cartridges on his desk, and a heap of gunpowder, with the man standing holding over it a lighted match, and threatening to blow up everything and everybody unless Mr Dicksou would give him the 50,000 crowns he wanted. Pacifying the man he again went out, got more policemen, fixed a water-hose and nozzlo to tho main waterpipe, and suddenly opening the door, had a fireman ready to deluge tho dynamite and knock down the man, who was at once secured. At his examination he boldly stated that his only object was <, money, as he objected longer to work for other people. Mr Dickson is at present the guest of the. Prince of Wales.—Times.