A BUSHRANGER.
INTENDED TO MAKE THINGS . " HUM.” A MAN MISSING. PRESS ASSOCIATION Wairoa, yesterday.
A Bensation has been caueed in the district by a Maori being stuck up by an armed man at Waihua Hill, on the Napier road, and relieved of his horse, saddle, and bridle. The robber was captured by the police on Sunday. Accused. Leonard Easter, 19 years of age, was armed with a five-chambered revolver pea-pißtol, folly loaded. He attempted to draw it on the police when arrested, but was disarmed, He said he was travelling to town to make it hum, when captured. He intended sticking up siogie wayfarers as they came along. He was brought np «nd remanded for a week. Furtner developments are expected. J.uueß Smi h. who left a aornb-outting o-tnp at Walk-re Monaka, Ess Thursday, for tha h t 1 tor e moes distan , with oash and oh- qua-, baa not since been heard of. Toe captured Qighwayman was in the vicinity at the time.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1918, 30 October 1906, Page 2
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164A BUSHRANGER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1918, 30 October 1906, Page 2
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