ALLEGED BUSHRANGER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 14 September 1911, Page 7

ALLEGED BUSHRANGER.

EXCITEMENT IN VICTO&IA. ? , Victoria has not seen , iast pi: the bushranging days, ~says' the Castbonm ino • covrenp'.'.'ri'di'fit' of Vln>-"S kt'iiM’' ‘‘Times.”, ft .is row 1 since 'rha.;last. gaugin’ . #••?}> (dadoes was .wiped, out', and' ('nr m.a.yW \ mil c people have found comfort a'nd Satisfaction in the belief hint, fcJ;e‘ ’clays of armed, rebellion against Jaw ail'd authority had passed for. all tVne. -.it This idea has been m a startling manner,, by"the fact that a man named Sahger, tdT whom the police here have been searching'for several days om suspicion of bpjjig the author of a' -multitude •of robberies, has taken to the bush,band is now defying his pursuers iimthe .ranges. , 'Sander “is ! well anp unfavourably ! known in the district. He. has made the most desperate threats as to what he will do too the'police shomd they come acrossihfwiulAndi he is’known to be'armed with ,£wq fWinchest<?|7,repeating rifles. ''The man is a noted and fatal shot, and/The people wlio know him best flrmlji believe that unless lie is taken unawares ' and overpowered before he can use hisweapons, there will be serious bloodshed. A force of mounted police, well armed, is searching the’ ‘ranges for Sanger, hut theiv(.task-is ,a Laid one. There is an .ifpmense area of Very dililcult country extending from bore almost to Bendigo. Tile' hunted man is a good biishnufn, wVbll able to live where another might stanvb, and he need not go short of ,fppd, because the country is overrun with rabbits, and it would be no difficult matter for him to secure mutton' now and then. Water is also plentiful. The police have met with some success—that, is to say, they have found four of the camping places of the fugitive. But that is all the progress they have been able .to report up to now. Possibly a different tale might bo told by a party of clever bushmen, who could work untrammelled by the hindrances which impede police work in this State. ' Meantime, the whole district is filafmed. People living in tile more remote parts are apprehensive that tho * suspect will levy upon .them by violent moans for anything .lie may And himself in need of. Several applications have been received I by the police for special'protection. 1 ■ " ■ '