RE-CAPTURE OF PLUM VEER, THE NOTORIOUS BURGLAR.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 145, 20 August 1872, Page 5

RE-CAPTURE OF PLUM VEER, THE NOTORIOUS BURGLAR.

* Frederick P'ummer, one of the Auckland gang of prisoners, who was reported in our last to have escaped from where he was at work near the Hillside toll-b.tr, between Oaversham and Dimedin, has since been retaken in the heart of the city by Detective Farrell. At first, it was generally believed that he had escaped into the country ; but from traces left behind in the commission of several daring till robberies in the city, and from the fact that nothing could be seen or heard of him during the souring of the country, it came to he believed that he must h a , in Dunedin. His escape wa3 made on Thursday, the Bth inst., and on the following Tuesday eveiung, the detective, in company with a constable, spotted him in Geor oestreet, near the Royal George stables. Since his escape, six different pot'y robberies have taken place in the vicinity o*f the n >rth end of the town, all of which are believed to have be 'ii committed by Plmumer. When captured, he was respectably dressed ; and it was only by a prison under-flannel vvnich he wore, that the detective identified his man. He strongly denied that he wa> Pin miner, and maintained that he was a r'spet-t.a ! "de citizen, and said his name was F. G. llalton. In proof of this statement he appealed, not to the citizens-roli, but to the fact that he had a receipt for rent upon him ; and sure enough among the varied assortment stowed away about him, the following document, written in a blurred and almost illegible scrawl, was found upon him:—"Received from 3lr F. G. Halton, twenty shillings, in advance of rent of cottage in Queen street. —P. Thomson." To which Was added the postscript:— " Cottage tiken from 19t!i August, 1872, rent to be £2 per month, t\.r s.x monttis.—P. T." Plummur said he would make it a caution to him (F.irreU) for so usi ig and detaining a respectable man ; but Farrell replied, " If I met you a hundred miles up-countrv, I would bring you to Mr Caldwell." < >nee taken into the prison, however, he saw that his game was up, and took macters in the most unconcerned way. He remarked to Detective Far* reli, '" I "have not see a you before, but I know you." Farrell sad it was the same with him.