A BRAVE WOMAN CAPTURES A ROBBER.
The “ North Otago Times ” reports that an extensive robbery of jewellery was perpetrated at the Waitaki Bridge Hotel on Wednesday evening. Mrs Ward, wife of the licensee, accompanied by Miss Hoggett, bad been to a neighbor’s house, aud on returning about midnight the last-named lady went into her bedroom, and on looking round missed several articles of jewellery. Mrs Ward was informed of the circumstance and awoke the barman, the three making a ■joint search. On looking under her bed Miss Hoggett observed a man crouched up in a corner, and catching him by the hair of the head she forced him to come out, when he said, “It is all right; I will give up what things I have got.” He was searched, and the undermentioned articles found upon him:—Watch and chain, gold locket, necklace and locket, three gold finger rings, pair of earrings, gold cross, set gold studs, solitaire, gold plated neck chain, silver chain, two silver pipe ferrules, one pair solitaires, scarf ring, watch, end seventeen and sixpence in silver. The man’s name is James Mack, and he had been stopping at tho hotel since the previous day. He was detained until the police had been communicated with, and was subsequently brought to town by Constable Kennedy.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2180, 19 February 1881, Page 3
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216A BRAVE WOMAN CAPTURES A ROBBER. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2180, 19 February 1881, Page 3
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