CAREER OF A NOTED BURGLAR

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1761, 8 February 1888, Page 3

CAREER OF A NOTED BURGLAR

. At Titnaru on Tuesday a man named Denis Murphy, alias Patrick Shine was committed for trial for breaking into Mrs Holmes' boardinghouse, and stealing therefrom a watch and various sums of money. He was neatly captured the next by Constable Kenny. According to the ''Herald " he Is n very note') person m hi) own lino of business. His first acquaintance with police eel's and gaola dutes many years back ; his aliases are very numerous, and during Imb oueer he hip been called SaMivaa, M*her, SSheen,n <n, and Murphy. It appears strange that he should olwyo stick to an Ilsh name. Many years ago he bnka ou: of the Auckland gaol, and for two or three days b.ffl d all the efforts of the police, bat was eventually taken m the Waltaketo FUcees (Anck'aid province) by Constable Brj'len who brought his prisoner to Aackland, and put ap at one of tbe hotels m that city. In the night prffoutr Shino jumped oat of oue of the windows, although he was haiidoaffod After this affair had blown over ha turned up lo Wellington, an I his jroceedingn for ore nlpbt m that city show the cunning and audacity of the man There were a comber of lodgers 'topping at the same bnnrdlnghouee wi h him, and about midnight he got np and commenced tiring his revolver into some of ih) bedrooms Of coarse there was *v immediate stampede of the half-naked lodgers, end then Shine quietly wont into the varloun rooms and examined the pockets cf the clothes that were lying about, with the result that he obtained four or five pcanre For this midnight escapade he got (en years. After cerving his time, 'ha was once more at large, and was next heard of i.^ Master ton, where be. waa accused of r bblDg a o anmeroial traveller of £40, bub tbis crime oould not be brought borne to him for want of evidence, so he was released and woi.t to Australia, retaming to this oolnnv by the same steamer that brought over Curie S Yam and her company.