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Cromwell Argus, Volume VII, Issue 316, 1 December 1875, Page 6

The clearing out of the old shaft in the locality known as Murphy's Hill, where the amalgam stolen from the safe of the Tokatea Company's battery last nnntb. was said to have been planted, was completed the other day, and sure enough there the deposit was discovered, and, singular to say, there was more than 200ozs over and above what was alleged to have been stolen from the Tokatea Company. There were in all 55Sozs, including the gunnybag in which it was dropped into the shaft. It appears that the amalgam was traced, owing to information given by a man named James Goldie, proprietor of a public-house on the Tokatea track, close to the battery from which the amalgam was stolen. He appears to have been implicated in the transaction, and will now be one of the principal witnesses for the prosecution. In making a clean breast of it he implicated Roycroft and otheis, whose names have not yet transpired.