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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 150, 16 June 1892, Page 2

A burglar met his-match at Albany on the Dijtfht of the 17tb,Vinsj/ :|fr Willis, the manager. of t £>algety and Co 's branch therey heard the^/oots stens of a man in his' Hdusef aboW midnight, and got a, reYolver^TanA-* candle. Gloing io A iW s^iigg 'rhpf, he attempted to push- ib.e"(}oor oDen. and foupd; th^thJr^^^^iS behind it. He told the m ; an J to'thr ! ow up. 'his hands and stand *6ut^ fs£M[ so, and Mir Willis matcb:ei him rio to thferdopr, covered by' tfeife. '^vbT^caK and relieved him of ati i^biim^oioe t6baq% and oth^r; thin^^ lvi had y ppbkfeted. \ Mr ' Wilii^;^ Wm marched ihis man towards tHia police station. The prisoner went .quietly in front of the revolver fbr a party of the way, but suddenly bolted: "The, revolver bein^ empty, Mr tfjllfrmie chase and Vcalled tor thef^po^e. The burglar ran into tiro > po^cfenian, and doubled back, whereupon h^ was secured by' Mr Willis, A who 4hr^. him down. -Ha proved^ /fo "be ia sailor named O'Brien,, froni the barque Vagabond. - :- l