A DESPERATE RESISTANCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4206, 6 September 1888, Page 2

A DESPERATE RESISTANCE.

(by telegraph.) Wellington, September 5. A sensational arrest of an alleged horsestealer waa made at Kapakapanai, near Te Oreore, last night. A young man named James White has been " wanted " for some time on two charges of horsestealing, and yesterday the police received Information that a man answering the description was working in tho diatriot mentioned. Constables Slight and Oarr were despatched to the place, and in one of the bushmen's tents found White, who took up a double-barrelled gun and threatened to shoot Slight if he advanced. White declared that he would not be taken alive; that he had been hunted enough by the polios already; and that if they waDted him they would have to take him dead. Several times he was called upon to lay down his gun and surrender, but eaoh time, acoording to Slight, he distinctly refused to do so. He slowly stepped backward towards his tent, and Slight followed him up. Finally White stood still, and said that if the constable advanced another step he would be shot. Just at this moment White made a half turn to the right, as though startled by some noise behind bim. Slight was then able to see that the gun was fully capped aud cocked, and he fired two revolver shots in quick succession at the hammers, in thß hope of disabling them, but missed them. White quickly recovered, from his surprise, and was again raising the gua to his shoulder when Slight fired once more and wounded him on the left wrist. This caused him to drop the gun, and as he stooped in the endeavor to pick it up again Slight pounced upon him, and with the aid of Constable Carr, seaured him, and the two officers kept guard over their prisoner all nigh*, attending to his injury as best they could, and this morning they brought him through the bush to the railway line, where they caught the train to Wellington. As the bullet had been extracted, .White was taken before the jasticas, and remanded for eight days. He was then removed to the hospital, and when sufficiently reoovered will be lodged in gaol. White is a brother of the man convicted of stealing the yaoht Dido, and which was sailed down to Lyttelton aome time ago. He was on board at the time.