HIGHWAY ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume II, Issue 1, 4 January 1864, Page 2

HIGHWAY ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

At 8.30 a.m. .the 12th December, 1863, a's Mr. Skinner, Agent for the. Rank ot New Zealand, Dunstan Branch, was proceeding from the Dunstan to the Nevis, to purchase gold, he was stuck up by two armed men (masked) who assaulted and robbed him of the following property: .£SOO in <£s-notes, of the Bank of N. Z. (new) £9sin £5 do., ' do. (old) £2OO in £1 do., do. (do)

£5 in silver, in crown, half-crown, and 2s. pieces, Some of the £5-notes identifiable. DESCRIPTION OF THE MEN. First, tall and stout, hair and complexion supposed dark, dressed in moleskin trousers and dark billycock hat, carried a gun. Second, shorter, hair and complexion supposed fair, carried a revolver. Two men, Thomas Murphy, alias Parker, alias Williams, and Thomas Cunningham, alias Clifford, alias Stewart, have been appi el tended, and a portion of the money found on them.