The New Plymouth Highwayman

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 20, 24 July 1893, Page 2

The New Plymouth Highwayman

i_PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] New Plymouth, July 23. The police have found out how the highwayman has managed to escape so often before being caught. He has been very cunning in the way he went about it, as the following will show : — A boy found an overcoat, a pair of dungaree trousers, a soft hat and a spur in a yard adjoining Cottier's Hotel. It would appear that the highwayman got into the rear of the hotel, stripped off his overcoat, dungaree trousers and hat, which covered his uniform, and then went in the back way to the hotel, so that no one saw him until he entered the door. Had he been successful he would have gone back to where he had stopped, put on his trousers and overcoat again and appeared amongst the crowd. This is what ho must have done on a former occasion, when the White Hart Hotel was tailed up, as it has now been proved that he was amongst the crowd a few minutes after the highwayman bad left the White Hurt on that oocna sion He stated in tho crowd that if he found the highwayman he had two pistols on liim. On another occasion, when the highwayman scare was on, a lady asked Robert Wallath (the highwayman) to take her sister home as she was fri«htenod of the highwayman He did so, and was talking of the highwayman all the way, saying what he would do if he caught him.