An Absconder Arrested.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 163, 18 June 1894, Page 2

An Absconder Arrested.

Believed to be Bailey.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Per Pr**ae Association. Stdnbt, June 15. A man calling hnnseif la.uk r. supposed to be an absconder named Basley. irom New Zealaud. has been arrested .a 1 >ubbo. He recently iouged £2BO in New Zea and bank notes m a bank at Orange, but after wards withdrew it in notes and gold, ana then went to Dubbo.

Colonel Hume lias received a cablegram announcing tlie arrest of this man wuu £9OO in hi> possession, ani siaiiug tnat ua confess** to be Baiiey. A cou»iab.e will be sent over at once lo bring ihe inau bac* to New Zealand.

Bailey was a stock drover and dealer. On the 28;h M.ircii iasl ns ;# known to have arrived a; Pa.mention Norm, having a uiob of 900 cattle turner in* care. This he was responsible for. holding cuarge of them a* ageut for numerous small ** ttisrs lin the Taranaki district. Wins at Palmerston he so d e . iue of ;he cau e. taking the rest on to Hawke s Bay. The balaucc he sold m and around the W&ipukurau district, m* date bciog *s: down as the 7tu Apt Two days alter wards he v«ut to end received from the firm by wrhoiA auction sale was alike ted a cheque for the sum of £1135. lit secured cash a: one of the local tprk* for Me cacque. taking j lot in £2O notes. Then he returned. | csuiuahlv to the Taranaki district, but as iie did not put m an Hppsarancs in due course there were not a few anxious enquiries concerning hie whereabouts. There being an e.siucut tlie police ware comm .mcaUvi with, and they traced h.m to Napiei and from tuence Iti Pahnei "t«m North. At mu pou.i hr hid completely dis.tppeared froiu otfi Ct gniaaiice. Some averred tnat he had gone to Uoo ganl v ;o the goldfields. anu older* asserted that Ur was safe 11 San Francisco. 1- now appears that Rails* * . 1 “7u..1i dl V.l* j man. ti’.y.i » ’.was rs-p n»i.l. to eli. .its for * «'* * y more than .viiat ha soi l In tlie IVuuistou and Hawke’s Bay d striots. Immediately aft- r llai'cv’e d..*pp«ar\N ■ if 4 rapture.—N 7. Times.