THE ALEMEDA GOLD ROBBERY. AUCKLAND, August 2.
It is almost certain that the chest containing 25,000 dollars in gold, lost frwrf the steamship Alameda, left the ship at Honolulu. A man, who it is believed robbed the ship, is also known, but he has fled beyond the pale of the Hawaiian law', being now in Japan, and eventually may be caught, for the Oceanic Company, has a powerful detective agency on his * tracks. The man is supposed to be an Australian, and he has been suspected of other such robberies between -Sydney and Auckland. When the Alameda sailed from Australia ibis man was a passenger for San Francisco, but he left the boat at Honolulu on May 15. On June Ihe sailed by tha Gaelic for the Orient. It is presumed that the thief had accomplices, and they brought the money off on a number ol visits aboard the ship, at dock in Honolulu. The coin would weigh about 1001b. The supposition in Honolulu is that the man will double back, and in a few weeks will be ranching or doing something else in an out-of-the-way Australian district.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2371, 10 August 1899, Page 45
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188THE ALEMEDA GOLD ROBBERY. AUCKLAND, August 2. Otago Witness, Issue 2371, 10 August 1899, Page 45
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