A GOLD STEALER.
In August, 1877, a box containing five thousand sovereigns was stolen from the mail steamer Baroda. Tho police having got a clue to the robbery have arrested a week or two ago Martin Wiborg, formerly a carpenter on board the baroda, who, since his discharge from the vessel has been living on a selection on Sangal River, South Gippsland. His place was searched, and a numbor of sovereigns were found most cleverly secreted away in a oarpen* ter's plane and other tools iv various parts of the log hut. He has since made confession that onotheji-pefeon-w implicated. 'Ihe pawoner stands remanded.
W iborg s confession implicates Elleston, late chief officer of the Avoca, in ihe robbery of the sovereigus from the ves»el. Late Inspector Secretan, of the detective force, goes Home by the mail to England toxlay
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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 23, 12 November 1878, Page 2
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140A GOLD STEALER. Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 23, 12 November 1878, Page 2
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