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Extraordinary Robbery.

A most ex" -.ordinary attempted robbery ore uit 1 ;;>. Croymoi'i-h lust week, when the en-ire ftirnitnro and effects of a dwelling house in a thickly-popu-lau-1 pari of th it iowxi were removed toon puc ion mart, and were about to be submitted to public auction when the owner suddenly appeared on the scene. A man named Endicote recently returned to Grey mouth, and having neither cash nor friends, " investigated the town in search of plunder. Afs.er several days lie succeeded in finding a well-furnished hoi: ,e belonging to Mr W. Jones. The owner, owing to his wife's illness, was unable to move into his new premises, and, locking the cottage, fondly thought all was safe. Endicote entered, took a careful inventory of everything, and engaging a covered v 11, had the goods removed in broad <!-ylight. The neighbors, concluding hat the owner had changed his mind a.id was removing his furniture, too': no further notice of the affair. A y mng lad, a relation of Mr ■Jones, p.v .u;'., asked why he was removing his furniture again. Jones only liiuglk d and declared the lad was dreaming. The boy, however, persisted in bis story, and more to gratify the lad than anything else he went to the houso. The door was open, three parts of the furniture gone, and the balance nicely parcelled up ready fjr being taken to the mart. Proceeding to an inner room they found Mr Endicote fast asleep in nice new blankets, with a bottle of brandy near by. On being wakened he realised that the game was up, and declared he had an injunction from Heaven to come and take the goods, lie then made a clean breast of it, and handed Mr Jones a full inventory of his goods and where they w<.re to be foil nil. Proceeding to the* mart Mr Jones saw the greater part of his furniture, which was to have been submitted to sale next day. Endicote was banded to tho police, who, by the way. knew him of old. He behaved in a strange manner, and was ultimately sent to the lunatic asylum.

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Hastings Standard, Issue 170, 13 November 1896, Page 4

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Extraordinary Robbery. Hastings Standard, Issue 170, 13 November 1896, Page 4

Extraordinary Robbery. Hastings Standard, Issue 170, 13 November 1896, Page 4

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