ROBBING A CYCLIST.
OAMARU, October 28. This evening about 5.30, as George Sullivan, a cyclist, was riding along the road, about six miles from town, lie was accosted by a man who asked the time. He got off his bicycle to give the infonnati-'n, atd tM man snatching the natch oni, of his h,v.«! made off down a bank. Sulliv.ui <r.jt on hrmachine to follow, and ran into the hvik ;tfc the foot of the hill. He fell across his machine and injured his spine, and after lying on the road for some time l»e vx* picked up and brought into the hospital. The lower part of his body is paralyse!. The man got away, but the i,r.licc *re in pursuit*.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2331, 3 November 1898, Page 22
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