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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1106, 13 February 1872, Page 4

The cargo of the Sea Ripple, from Mauritius, was all sold at Adelaide, at a considerable advance on late rates. Yellows, L 34 2s 6d to L 34 10s; fine to light yellows, L 35 17s 6d to L38 12s 6d ; yellow crystals, L3B 7s 6d to L4O ; white counters, L4l 7s 6d to L41 12s 6d ; white crystals, L4l. Wheat firm, at 65.2 d. A man named Thomas Aldridge, who had been connected with the district surveying party and the geodetic survey in the Beechworth ne'ghborhood, was found drowned the other day in the Broken River, having, as it was believed, committed suicide. " Tt seems very probable," thinks the Ballarat Btar y " that the horse-pistol and revolver found in an old hole at Egerton a few days ago have some connexion with the robbery at the branch of the London Chartered Bank there on the Bth of May, 1869. It will be remembered by many of our reader that 1640z of gold and L7OO in gold and notes, were stolen from the bank on the .night of that date, under rather peculiar circumstances. A young man named Louis L. Brunn was in charge of the bank at the time, and his statement was to the effect that as he was opening the bank door, a man suddenly presented a pistol at h'*s head and threatened to shoot him if he gave the alarm. The man thon went into the bank with Bruun, who dared not call out, and removed the gold and notes from the safe, having, first blindfolded Brunn, and made him hand over a revolver be-" longing to flic tank. When he gave information of the robbery, Brunn at once stated that the robber was a young j man known ■ as Captain Scott, who had acted as a lay reader at Egerton for some time. It Jwill be| recollected that Brunn waß arrested with a man named Simpson, and tried for the robbery, but both were acquitted. Shortly after the trial the man Scott left the district, and has since been imprisoned for robbeiy at Sydney. We believe that he is now in a lunatic asylum in New South Wales. Now, the revolver and horse-pistol were found in a hole exactly between the ban!.: and the house in which Scott then lived, and the matter is causing a good deal of excitement in Egerton, and, of course, among Brunn'B friends in Ballarat. The revolver taken by the robber from the bank was by Deane and Adams, and of the exact size of the weapon recovered. The horse-pistol is scarcely the weapon that would be chosen by a man intended to rob and murder; but still it is sufficiently formidable-looking to frighten a young bank clerk. The pistol has a great deal of brass work about it, and in giving his account of the robbery Brunn stated that he saw the pistol presented at him by the robber shone as if it were heavily mounted with some bright metal. The theory of the detectives at the time did not embrace any* possibility of Scott's guilt, but it is likely that some further inquiries will be made now, as Brunn and his frienas are anxious that no stone should be left unturned where there is a chance of throwing any light upon this mysterious affair."