The Highwayman.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7269, 24 July 1893, Page 2

The Highwayman.

(By Telegqaph.)

NEW PLYMOUTH. Jtriy S 3.

The police have found out how the highwayman has managed to escape so often before being caught. He hae been cunning in the way he went about it as the following will show. A boy found an overcoat, a pair of dungaree trousers, a soft hat, aud a spur in the yard adjoining Cottier’s hotel. It would appear that the highwayman got into the rear of the hotel, stripped off hie coat, dungaree trousers, and hat, which covered his uniform, and then went in the back way to the hotel, so that no one saw him until he entered the door. Had he been successful he would have gone back to where he had stripped, put on his trousers and overcoat again, and appeared amongst the crowd. This is what he must have done on former occasions when the White Hart Hotel was bailed up, as it has now been proved that he was amongst the crowd. A few minutes after the highwayman had left the White Hart on that occasion he stated in the crowd that if he found the highwayman be had two on him. On another occasion when the highwayman scare was on a lady asked Robert Wallath (the highwayman) to take her sister home, as she was frightened of the highwayman. He did so, and was talking of the highwayman all the way, raying what he would do if he caught him.