CAPTURE OF PLUMMER.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 180, 16 August 1872, Page 4

CAPTURE OF PLUMMER.

Predtferick-Piummer, one of-tho Auckland gajfag,.and who escaped- from cua -tody of Tlmrsday, the Bth, was captured m George street, Dunedin- by that vigilant officer, detective FarrcD on .the\. evening.. of Tuesday hst' The following particular of Plinnmer's career-will prove interesting: H e i s of a respejct&ble family. Rib "brother for several years was a draper in Queen street, Auckland, and favminoat Kaip/ara: In ' Marcn", 1867, Plum" m'er pleaded guilty to two charge of burglaijy, and received Wo eaafconcea

of four years .■■•consecutively. While waiting trial he escaped and pillaged several houses, ste:«:ing a horse; and after a three days' pursuit was shot by a detective in the leg. His horse-being killed under him, ho was recaptured. He pleaded guilty of the escape,, horse stealing, and- larceny ; but no sentence was passed till July, 1869. On the occasion of his second escape, which was with another prisoner, he was at large for twelve days, during which he slept in the bush, stole clothes from a cutter on. the coast, and was captured at Mahaurangi by Detective Ternahari. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for the escape, and to four years for the robbery, the sentence to commence at the expiration of his original sentence. He afterwards made attempt to escape * in March and December, IS7O, in January and August, 1871, and in March, 1872. On the last occasion he was ordered to wear irons, and received a number of sentences, and was put on : bread and water for acts of idleness, for refusing to-work, for destroying clothes, for fighting and assaulting other prisoners, tor breaking sewing machines and. windows, and for cutting . through the floor of his cell and door rivets, and partly cutting through a .floor of iron. One time, while, at large, the detectives discovered in the possession of- Plummer, at his cottage at Cabbage Bay, twelve muskets and one keg of powder.