ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume II, Issue 6, 14 March 1864, Page 31

ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

■ At about 9 o’clock on the evening of the 4th March, 1864, William Moore, a labourer, returning from Dunedin to his home at the Halfway Bush, was stopped near the latter place, and stuck up by two men, one of them presenting a pistol to his head, while the other rifled his pockets, but he had no property on him. They shortly afterwards similarly stuck up another man, named William Lang Eastaway, but he had no- property about him. They are described — Ist man, between'' 30 and 1 40 - years • ! old, 6 feet high, thin face, small whiskers, 'dressed n dark coat and cloth cap. 2nd man, about 25 years old, 5 feet 5 inches high, round face with bushy whiskers, dressed in pilot coat and wideawake hat. Two men, named John Wilton and Jeremiah Keilor, Tasmanian-convicts, have been .arrested and identified as the offenders.

BURGLARY. Between the hours of 11 p.m. the 9th, and 6 a.m. the 10th March, 1864, the Hawkesbury Branch of the New Zealand Bank was burglariously broken into, and eight shillings worth of threepenny pieces, and a double white ivory opera glass, stolen therefrom, the property of Mr. Wm. F. Hull, the manager. The opera glass identifiable.