THE TARANAKI HIGHWAY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11848, 24 July 1893, Page 2

THE TARANAKI HIGHWAY.

« Further Particulars. (Pek Press Association.) New Plymouth, July 23. , Tli6 police havo found how the high. • wayman has managed to escape co often t before being caupht. He has been very cunninp in the way he went about it, as ! fcho following will show. A boy found an , overcoat, a pair of dungaree trousers, a > soft hat, and a spur in the yard adjoining , Cottier's Hotel. It would appeer that , the highwayman got into the rear of the , hotel, stripped off the evorcoat, &0., , which covored his uniform, and then - went in by the back way to the hotel, 30 J that no one saw him until us entered thfl^ j donr. Had he been sussessful he would - have gone back to where he had stripped, , putonhis.tioJßirsandovercoat againnnd • disappeared among the crowd. This is what he must have done on a former - occasion, when tho White Hart Hotel was , billed up, as it has now bsen proved that 1 he was amongst the orowi a few minutes after the highwayman had leftthe White ; Hart. On that occasion he stated in the , crowd that if he found the highwayman I he had tno pistols on him. On another occasion when tho highwayman ecara was on, a lady asked Eobt. VVallath (the highwayman) to take her sister home as she was afraid of the highwayman. He did so, and was talking of the highwayman all the way home, saying what he would do if he caught > him.