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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 19, 23 March 1870, Page 3

For some time past it has been supposed, and (states the Ballarat Courier) not without good reason, that some of the minors in the employ of the Great Northern Junction Gold-Mining Company were defrauding the shareholders by stealing gold from the mine. So well-grounded were the suspicions, that it was deemed advisable to obtain the assistance of Detectives Eason and Hyland, who took the case in hand some ten days ago. On Tuesday evening they laid an ambuscade and arrested five men as they cams out of the shaft. The prisoners are Thomas Rashleigh, Silas May, Christopher Tompkin, Joseph Roberts, and John Higgins, several of whom had long boon employed by the company. On being searched, a considerable quantity of gold was found upon thorn, the man Rashleigh (who admitted the robbery, and endeavoured to exculpate the other men) having in bis possession a to-bocco-ponoh almost filled with the precious metaL The prisoners were all conveyed to the lock-up at about six o’clock. It is strongly suspected that . many hundred pounds’ worth of gold have boon stolen from this mine of Lite, but full particulars will doubtless be given at the police court i examination.