TAIL RACE ROBBERY AT THE ARROW.
Messrs Jas. and S. Fraser, with a wages-man named Kenneth M‘Clay, work a sluicing claim in Bracken’s Guily. The last wash-up took place last Christmas, since when they have been sluicing. On Saturday last they had the water turned off all day, as they were cleaning up some bottom to bring the head of the sluice nearer to the face. They usually leave a heavy body of water running through the sluice to prevent robbery; but this night they omitted to do so. On Sunday morning Mr S Fraser went down to look at the paddock and found the paving of the sluice taken up for some distance from the head, and the gold estimated at forty to fifty ounces, abstracted The alarm was given, every search for footprints, &c., was made, but as the weather had been dry lately no marks could be found M‘Clay came down and gave informatUn to the police, and Sergeant Hunt went up to the gully and will remain there to-night (Sunday) A large number of Chinese are working in the gully, also a few Europeans. No clue has up to this moment been obtained to the culprit. —* Cromwell Argus.’
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Evening Star, Issue 3784, 10 April 1875, Page 2
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202TAIL RACE ROBBERY AT THE ARROW. Evening Star, Issue 3784, 10 April 1875, Page 2
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