"ARCHIE" M'NEIL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 423, 4 February 1909, Page 4

"ARCHIE" M'NEIL.

STILL AT LARGE.

:.■•:;.". ;;.HIS;TOUEIN'■THE-icoUNTRT''' ; :: ? ■ .Terrace.-Gaol; last.Sahirday ■ weelt, ' has been visiting .settlers ..and' claiming, kinship in ■: the .thi;onicle,,,oi.Tuesriay.■ Word, was received at tne . ynrowcle,- office on Tuesday, morning that a .??. | \ n .'.resembling):the .escaped .convict had' .visited several settlers- on. Hokio'.Beach" Road at'the ;end;of last week. : ■"; y. ■-■.. :■ i>: : ..•.,-.- ■. v' . : '-:'AvrepivM3ntetiye'>of-.:tho , "Cironiclo"'went---but and .luterriowedthe settlers .who had -'seenhim■Lney\state.that/"the man,.who was wearinean oilskin -and slouch hat,- and- had ; a week's R-, M.Nab (late■■■ Minister. f?r,;Lands),: and: the MDonald family. His stories aroused thesuspicidn of tho settlers, and the police were com miinicated with., Coristables'Bagrie -and ; Lon? : bottomare npw.investigatine..tho matter' ■ /.Mr. J: Cole,; who, with fes'family/ is'spending a holiday:at the bench, told a "Chronicle" representative on . Sunday: that'; eight; tins'; of condensed milk had been stolen from his cottaea a day or:two pveyiousljr..'■'■"• / ' ■ . ■■ , ■'..»•, ■■-• TheVmanV stories .arjv:as-;aimusins 'as-ther ■are. inconsistent. ■.■Hβ told -Mrs./ Hector M'Dp^; aid, .whonrhe.Tisitod ,on Friday, for .refreshments, -\ that ■he was related to kw M'DimnM family, and; wished Vfind his r brotte"jS His name was i^Do,i, , ', : ho said, but the name i« not. familiar. :tojfrs. Hector, M'Doiibld/. HJ also stated .that he -.was,one of a .survey ■partv ■ fivho ■ had;coma u P: from -Weilington' via 1« •coast to survey w electric' .tram-line: foi -lira.. - dicato who proposed running a train from Hokio Beaoh-: to Levin -- He ; got : ts andTrefreihmente' f /r ,u -,v- ■ I Mar . tl ! l Wimata:. previoiislv to • this «Jn J u a ) a g -', TI him i»fo'TOation- about the- : M.'Donad family,: 5 „. .M'Donald directed him to Mr John l['DonaWs residence, and thenianarrived, there and repeated: lh, same to