ANOTHER BUSHRANGER CAPTURED IN VICTORIA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 915, 12 January 1871, Page 2

ANOTHER BUSHRANGER CAPTURED IN VICTORIA.

[MELBOURNE LEADER.] Btjshranging never lasts long in Victoria, thanks to the hue body of police we possess, the latest instance of their efficiency being given on 9th December in the arrest of John Sullivan, the desperado who fired at mounted constable Mays on. the evening of the 2nd December on the Yarra Track. It will be remembered that his comrade, Frank Smith, was then arrested, but Sullivan managed to escape. Immediately after Smith had been safely lodged in Melbourne gaol, Superintendent Furnell, accompanied by mouuted constables Mays, Costelio, Chisholm, and a black tracker, started in pursuit of Sullivan, who had been seen making in the direction of Darlingford aud the Big River. He was tnjcqd to. $> te &§

Bid River, where ho "stuck up" the inmates, taking a shirt and a pair of toots, and then started off towards the Upper Goulbourn. By means of the tracker he was followed until reaching the junction of the Acheron and Goulfcurn rivers. Thinking that it was possible he would here turn back towards the Yarra Track, Superintendent Furaell divided his forces.. Together with constable Mays and the tracker, he started towards Fisher's Creek, Co&telLo and Chisholrn being sent down the Acheron river in the same direction. Upon striking the Fisher's creek road about nine o'clock on the Bth December, they discovered traces of the man they were in search of, and resolutely followed the tracks until about three o'clock, when they lost them amongst' some brushwood. After some consultation it was decided that Chisholui should follow along the Yarra Track in search of the man, while Costello, in company with a bullock driver they had met, should turn back towards the Acheron River, Having traced the footsteps back a short distance, Constable Costello caught sight of a man carrying a swag making through the brushwood towards some dense scrub. The constable drew his revolver, and called upon him to surrender, which, after a short parley, he .did. Without dismounting, the policeman ordered him to open his swag, thinking that perhaps he had his firearms concealed inside, but such was not the case. Costello then dismounted from his horse, which he suffered to go at large, and proceeded to take a sheath knife from Sullivan, who perceiving a chance of .escape, made a dash for the scrub. A smart chase ensued, in the course of which Sullivan was seen to throw a watch and chain into some brushwood, but fortunately, before reaching the scrub, he was headed by the bullock-driver, and secured. Upon reaching Fisher's Creek he was at once identified by constable Mays as the man who fired at him, and he was then brought into Melbourne. He was taken before the city magistrates ,on the 9th December, when he denied that his name was Sullivan, or that he had ever seen Mays before, or fired a shot in his life. He was, however, identified by detective Mackay as John Sullivan, who was acquitted at the last criminal sessions of a charge of burglary at the residence of Mr Svmonds, Vaucluse, Richmond, and he was therefore remanded until Tuesday. No trace has yet been discovered of his firearms, which it is supposed he has planted in the bush. The two bushrangers, Sullivan and Leigh, recently arrested on the Yarra track, were again taken before the city magistrates on Tuesday, but before commencing the case Inspector Kabat applied for further remand for a week, which application was acceded to without remark,

The risks to which valuable historical documents are exposed have just been strikingly illustrated by the case of a iarge collection of MSS. relating to America, left by William Penn and his immediate descendants. These papers comprise several hundred original letters addressed to the proprietary in England from the governors and other high officials of Pennsylvania, and date from the end of the seventeenth to far into the eighteenth century ; also volumes of copied correspondence of the proprietary with America; the correspondence with colonial governors and leading politicians at home during Penn's second visit to Pennsylvania, as devised and corrected by Penn; original petitions, signed by first settlers; broadside proclamations, wills, private letters of Penn during his courtship of Hannah Callowhill, papers containing a vast array of facts relating $o the early history of America, got together for litigation on the boundary question ; rare printed books, Ac, which to describe fully would occupy too much space. These documents appear to have recently become the property of a colLteral representative of the Penn family, and were offered by him and sold in a mass to a '* waste paper dealer, to be (destroyed as waste at the mills J " Fortunately, there are those whose business it is to call upon these waste paper dealers to collect anything of value that may be discovered. By them the papers were found and sold to Mr Allen, of Covent Garden. They are now safely lodged in their most befitting place, among the archives of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, and available for future students of American history,