THE PEOPLE ALARMED.

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 April 1910, Page 4

THE PEOPLE ALARMED.

I Hi-. I'AI.MKIISTON SKNSATION. . r.Y I 1.1 r.CI! \I" 11 I'll'- I'KI -IS .\s-OCl.\ I InN i I'AI.MKRST<>S N., April b. I'.ihuei-st.'ii is still in loiiin ii!. \\. I'M !! all- Coming II! Fit in th'- "U 11\ in.' Il.iisi s 1.. »ta\ with irieivls 111 i"V. n : ami town h.ur-elioldcrs are kept in a ' cm-taiil state ..f ii!:.! in h.\ 111 •11 w.iii.-ii folk, and in- i" ai iitiimal excursions after supper hours. I |,,. iiiiitli-i- i- complicated In tin- fad that twn I'tiinliaiii bovs are at large, ' and otln.-i | pie :im- also apparently ' takint; a<lvanla.m- -I the l'..\u-lka s.-an-. Th,- pr.lioe have heen doing excellent : ~'.,.i k iii sear.h and pan..!. Th.-v havIliad a riiiiuli iiu..- 'imiiiL' 1 it*- past f.-n ! niuh! sine" th.- lit ■.: .■■. idi-m-i' ..f I'.. I welka's pi.--.riir,- ai 1 -1■ n_;111:? ri mi Raster Saturday, while the niuiilier of false alarms dial ihev have lieen made to suffer hy excited individuals has .given many a fruitless seareh. The actual evirlenees are: ■ I'owelka has In en ;il a lir.-aliiu-.' in at llie Lmiii» | burn store on Kastei Siitniday: lohi !h-iv under arms al Kendall's on Salurd.'t\ nigill residenee in 1.i0a.l Street mi Monday night; and the sensiition of last niirln. which may or ma\ not have had any .-oiiiie.-iioii with llie fugitive, but which include the entrance to a -hop in town' I from which detonators were taken, and Jlo a store close at hand where a lire afterwards revealed itself. Police reinforcements have arrived ! from Tar.; nal; i. Wan Ma ii tli, and other i cen i res, and more will arrive to-mor-I row. The area to be patrolled is so large thai a fugitive mighl escape for many weeks, Iml a systematic search is to Inmade by day. Ilu- Manawalu Daily Times urges thai in order to allay alarm, and lead to a speedy apprehension of the fugilive, that the fiovoriiinent offer a reward. || is ,-erlain that the facl ol Powelkii having twice escaped custody has won him certain sympathisers, bill sympathy is now giving place to alarm, which the paper considers even means should he taken to put an end in.