THE EVELEIGH SENSATION.

Mataura Ensign, 4 July 1914, Page 5

THE EVELEIGH SENSATION.

ARREST IN TASMANIA. BT JXKCTRTO TKLFGRATO OOPTBIGHT, PEit DNITEO PRESS ASSOCIATION. MFJLBQIIRNE, July 3. Actinjx on a Sydney warrant, the, Tasmanian police have arrested a man named Samuel Faulkiner on hoard the Launceston , train on a charge that, knowing that Ernest.Ryan had committed the Eveleigh robbery, he at Melbourne harbored;, maintained and assisted Ryan. A search disclosed the presence of 57 £5 notes on Sydney bankp', sewn in Faulkiner's clothing; also £2O in gold and silver. .Faulkiner was until recently employed in a city warehouse. According to the police, about' the time of the Eveleigh hold-up lie left his employment, giving as an excuse his daughter's illness. MEANT TO SAIL FOR ENGLAND. '< MELBOURNE, July 3. It is stated that Faulkiner had booked pasages for himself and daughter to .England; and they should have sailed to-day. . :,.r , . «