OUTRAGE IN A WELLINGTON HOTEL.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS association.] Wellington, Wednesday. An impudent robbery from the person was committed between twelve and one this morning at the Duke of Edinburgh Motel. Charles Zahl, an architect, lately arrived from Sydney, was passing along one of the passages, when he was set upon by three men, who knocked him down and rifled his pockets, taking about £155 in notes, gold, and silver, and then made off. Two hours later Zihl identified a young man named John McCarthy, a speeler, as one of the men, and he was arrested, but no money found on him. However, there was found a complete set of " speeling" articles. McCarthy was charged with the offence this morning and remanded till Saturday to enable other arrests to be made. Although McCarthy managed to get rid of all personal effects, upon searching his box the police found, besides numerous gambling implements and a quantity of sham jewellery, a large number of excellently counterfeited sovereigns. No further arrests have yet been made. The place swarms with shady characters just now.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7862, 3 February 1887, Page 5
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180OUTRAGE IN A WELLINGTON HOTEL. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7862, 3 February 1887, Page 5
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