TWO ARRESTS MADE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12600, 2 March 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

TWO ARRESTS MADE.

Just before midnight on February 16 Chief - Detective Campbell suceoeded in Meeting an anvst in commotion with iho assault ' and robberv. ho apprehending; -x man named Thomas ftarusay, alias Fctmler, alum ? Phillip?. Ramsay is a nntiro of America, * about 30 years of ago, and has eerved a aiMitonw) in Sydney. H(\ arrived in the colony some tim-e ago, and whs sentenced j at. Wellington to 12 mcaHis* imprifionment A with hard labour on a chargo of having 3 bouso-breaking implements in his possesw'ou, receiving nn additional sentence for (l his daring escape from gaol while em- u ployed anioncst other pri c onen; at the forfs at i! Wellington Heads, which escape will bo still (1 fresh in public memory. Ramsay when 1 arrested made no statement beyond protesting that Iho police hnd made a mistake, S' and said he had. "been expecting this all J (lav." Tu bii? possession was found £13 in a single Bank of New Zealand notes, besides , a quantity of looso ca~h. a 15-carat heavy , gold double watch guard, lockct eot with g diamonds, rolled gold lever watch, - and other jj miscellaneous property. j The injured man Tteid remained in the q samo peculiar condition, sneaking frequently y but incoherently, until a late hour on Tues- "s----day, when lie recovered sufficiently to be % able to express l himsoll intelligently \\ The police havo been on the alert sinoo the arrest of Kum?ay, and on Wednesday T afternoon Chief-detective Campbell and De- U tective Ilill arrested a man named John K Cairns, charging him jointly with Ramsay 1 with having aseanVd and robl>ed. wilh violence. Thoma* Held of the sum of £?.55. 1 The prisoner was lodged in the cells. He is j ' a native of Tasmania, where be has already _ served a number of sentences for theft. Tu January of this year he was sentenced at Dunedin lo <mo month's imprisonment with , liard labonr for the theft of a portmanteau. etc., ?.t Alexandra, and ho was only released from tfrbl on February 14. It h under- j stood the police have a number of witnrssrr, w who will swear to ?eeiug the two accused on ( ] the rpolainsod land on the 16th with a- horno p and cart, and to other matters, which, being imnortant Orown evidence, cannot bo pub* lishetl nntil testified on oath. The horse and cart found in Vogcl street on Monday night have both been identified as the pro- C perty missing from the Outrum district, (?

Little or no property was found in Cairns's possossion, and so fur the polioa have not succeeded in finding tho missing £255. Both Ramsay' nmd Cairns were brought up at the Police Court charged with tho I robbery and asmult, aud are under remand. | Ball was allowed, hut it was fixed at so large a sum as to be practically prohibitive.