AFTER TEE WRONG MAN
-The Southland papers report an amusing incident id conneoti •>» with the search fi r Rudolph Radka, the epoap°d prisoner. Two oonstab'eß ahon f : 1 o'clock mth 9 morning observed iv front -.f them a figaro resembling Kadi; a. Desirous of verifying their suspicions bofore actually bb'e eg him the two increased their pact>, bat so did the figure. The (fficara broke loto a trot ; the young man dl'< likewise, One of the officers oa led npon the yoang man to stop, but that only had the effect of giving the fleetaesa of the wind to hits movements, and hn disappeared Bomewhero m the neighborhood of the gardens The whole available force m the barraokß was summoned «nd the gardens searched, without aeall. Oa Wednesday afternoon a young uipn, a vial or from Melbourne, called at the polioj offue and ooinplained that while returning to his hotel along Nlth street, after spending the evening with a friend, he was, at the time above named, followed and eventnally ncoosted by tw> desperate aoonndrelr, who apparently had determined to assault and rob him* that he took to hia heels, that they.,, followed m full cry, bnt that he managed to give them the " double " and reaoh his hotel, safe but muoh terrified and exhausted. The news was broken gently to the officers interested, and they are now doing well. Radka is still at large,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1960, 3 October 1888, Page 3
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235AFTER TEE WRONG MAN Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1960, 3 October 1888, Page 3
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